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By alang.consultant Kabul, Afghanistan (Knewz) – Far from the rugged mountains and obscure madrassas they not so long ago called home, young Taliban soldiers now swarm bustling city streets and freely man checkpoints dotted across the long-battered nation. When you ask most Afghans their age – nobody seems to know, and it’s likely nobody will ever know. But chillingly, that has meant that the former insurgency has long been able to append its ranks with children. And despite now operating as a formal government – officially termed the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan – it seems the Taliban has n…