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Ahmed Wali Karzai News - The New York Times
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Updated Oct. 27, 2009 Ahmed Wali Karzai is the younger bother of Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan. He is a prominent political figure in the southern region of the country and leads the provincial council of Kandahar Province, the governing body for the region that includes ...
nytimes.com - 10/28/2009
Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll
— nytimes.com — KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai , the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player... in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency , and has for much of the past eight years, ... (more) Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll

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cnas.org - 10/28/2009
The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week
— cnas.org — Why, you ask? Because if this is true, and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai... at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to mission success, then this is yet another example of NATO/ISAF carrying ... (more) The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read ...

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Karzai declared elected president
news.bbc.co.uk - 27 days ago
Karzai declared elected president
— news.bbc.co.uk — Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Kabul on 2 November 2009... (more) Karzai declared elected president

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Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll
The Political Carnival — By GottaLaff Double take. Triple take: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that ...

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Newshoggers.com — ... Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal ...

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JustOneMinute — Here we go with another leak seemingly intended to undermine the notion that the US can succeed in Afghanistan: KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai , the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency , and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the ...

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At-Largely — ... for winning their war on 'terra' (we all know that the drug and arms trade fund terrorism): Ahmed Wali Karzai , the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal ...

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