Karzai's Problem Brother: Drugs, Spies and Controversy

Time by Aryn Baker | Oct. 28, 2009 (News Analysis)

The claim that Ahmed Wali Karzai has been on the payroll of the CIA for the past eight years, as reported in the New York Times on Tuesday, won't come as a surprise to most Afghans, who have long considered his brother, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, to be an American puppet. Full Story »

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 by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Oct. 28, 2009

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Yet the question begs to be asked: If Wali Karzai was in fact so valuable an asset over the past eight years that his drug-running was at best treated with a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, why has Afghanistan’s situation steadily deteriorated?

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