It's easier for Getty Images to get their unemployed actor buddy roommate to dress up in Tailiban gear from Goodwill and pretend to take photos in a vacant lot than it is to go all the way to Afghanistan and infiltrate terrorist groups who want to behead Americans and Westerners and suspect everyone of being a spy...

Guys who have been fighting guerilla war non-stop for 40 years are probably smart enough not to shoot off their own feet by using crappy trigger-discipline.

I agree with you, it just shows they know how to hold a gun. It doesn't really have anything to do with the CIA. I'm saying you have to go back a long long time if you want any "pre-CIA Taliban" and those guys would be like 70 or 80 years old now.