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CIA cash to Karzai a bust
Afghan leader lacks loyalty to U.S.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
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Martin Schram
Americas long-running, mondo-bizzaro courtship of Afghanistans mercurial Hamid Karzai got even wilder and wackier this past week.
Now, things that used to be top secret like CIA bags full of cash delivered, with no questions asked, to a government famously rife with corruption are being featured on screens everywhere. And Washington policy is looking like a comic Hollywood parody of the way the world really works.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/05/cia_cash_to_karzai_a_bust
WORLD NEWS
Updated April 29, 2013, 1:12 p.m. ET
Karzai Confirms Accepting CIA Cash Monthly for 10 Years
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323798104578452532322242100.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/cia-bribes-karzai-millions-ghost-money-paid-afghanistan-president-new-york-times_n_3176956.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/10038988/MI6-handing-bundles-of-cash-to-Hamid-Karzai.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/karzai-and-his-cash.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/afghanistans-hamid-karzai-confirms-cia-cash-paymen/