I'm tempted to believe Mohammadi. The Afghans had been living with the statues for centuries; the impetus to destroy them probably came from Kandahar. Mullah Omar and his foreign friends were crazy people, even by Southwest Asian standards. If Prince Turki and his alim couldn't convince Omar to leave the statues alone, no Afghan official could, either.
.....I'm tempted to believe Mohammadi.....
He is telling the truth about the crazies but ..... who let them in? He did.