Karzai's brother on CIA payroll and trafficking heroin. Nice combination there

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http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN27275533

Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:52pm EDT
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WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been getting regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials.

Ahmed Wali Karzai is a suspected player in Afghanistan's opium trade and has been paid by the CIA over the past eight years for services that included helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the CIA's direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, the newspaper reported.

Ahmed Wali Karzai said in an interview that he cooperates with U.S. civilian and military officials but does not engage in the drug trade and does not receive payments from the CIA, the Times said.

The CIA neither confirmed nor denied the reported payments.

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[Lint Head]

1. Apparently this happened under the criminal Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld

regime.

[mod mom]

3. If ignored like Clinton did w Iran Contra, it will come back to haunt us as did B/C .

Prosecute bu$h/cheney and bring our troops home!

[global1]

6. Right - Who Put Hamid Kharzi In Power?.....

BushCo.

Obama is having to play clean-up the mess again for them.

BushCo was working and in my humble opinion - still working - both sides of the street.

Any wonder why we are seeing all this violence there now? Any wonder why they don't want to re-do the election?

This is why Obama is taking so long to decide what the long range plan is in that part of the world. BushCo has embedded deep within our government - people that are making it hard for him to do the right thing.

Drug traffic out of that region of the world is contributing to the violence on the streets of this part of the world. Think Chicago.

This is all intertwined and I'm sure there will be shots at me - that I'm wearing the biggest 'tinfoil' hat around.

But come on people - put it together. DEA agents got killed the other day. Any wonder what they were doing?

President Obama is trying to wrap his mind around this tangled web that was weaved by BushCo.

I feel for him. He's trying to do the right thing - but he has covert forces to deal with - and he probably doesn't know who he can trust.

[blm]

7. Like NYT and other newsmedia never KNEW Bushes have been running drugs as well as arms for decades.

Try reading government reports instead of helping Bush-Clinton-Bush deepsix them, Mr. Media.

[Jennicut]

2. Yes, that has been known for a long time.

Which is why Biden and Kerry and others have a lack of trust of him.

[NOW tense]

4. Can you say Manuel Noriega all over again. n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Gee what a shocker.

I still think this is why Pat Tillman was killed. He was going to publicly complain about something he saw.

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. The CIA is the biggest drug cartel in the world..

is this surprising?

[flyarm]

9. get this book and read it: The Secret Team by L.Fletcher Prouty

These boys Pick who runs our country!

They control it all!

Many of us call it the Shadow Government..call it what you will..they control who sits in our White House and they control what they do! One way or another.

[unc70]

10. The Opium Wars have never ended.

Just evolved a bit.