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Karzai’s Brother Reported on US Payroll: So, Uh, How Much CIA Money Inadvertently Funds the Taliban?
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 10/28/2009
Karzai’s Brother Reported on US Payroll: So, Uh, How Much CIA Money Inadvertently Funds the Taliban?
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How many of these are now US property? (photo by ChuckHolton) Time for some serious Congressional hearings. The New York Times reports that Hamid Karzai’s brother, who has long been suspected of running a drug ring in southern Afghanistan — I mean, I asked Said Jawad, the ...
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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thehill.com - 10/28/2009
Dems say CIA may have misled Congress 5 times
— thehill.com — The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House... Intelligence Committee said Tuesday. (more) Dems say CIA may have misled Congress 5 times

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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's Narco-trafficking Brother Is On CIA's Payroll
Newshoggers.com — ... years apparently, directly undermines any population-centric counter-insurgency that was ever possible in Afghanistan. The leaking of its ties to Karzai's brother is a disaster of nightmare proportions for any chance of COIN success there, the icing on the cake. Added to all the other factors - the election, the civilians bombed, the abysmal state of the Afghan security forces, the very fact of a foreign occupation - the occupation has passed its tipping point for sure. Spencer Ackerman wants to know when the Congressional investigation starts. ...

We Entered Afghanistan Bearing Cash for Warlords, After All
Firedoglake — ... So, about Ahmed Wali Karzai. Remember we got into Afghanistan in 2001 thanks to the derring-do of CIA operatives who politicked with Northern Alliance warlords thanks to bricks of cash. That got us into Kabul and into Kandahar. ...

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CIA In Bed with Karzai’s Corrupt Brother — Taylor Marsh
I wonder if this was Dick Cheney’s idea ? Trouble is, it’s still going on now that Obama’s in charge. Whatever happened to Leon Panetta’s principles? They’re lost somewhere in Afghanistan, along with money paid to yet another Karzai bag man.  ...