Afghan Killing Bares a Karzai Family Feud

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Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - via Dan Gillmor, Dan Kennedy

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Jo Bobenhouse Smith
3.9
by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Dec. 19, 2009

This is a fascinating story that reads like a soap opera. It provides cultural insight into Afghanistan's Karzi family and its impact on American endeavors in that area.

30 year old vendettas or drug wars: you decide.

Some relatives said they believed that the death was vengeance for an “honor killing” of Hashmat Karzai’s father nearly 30 years ago by Yar Mohammad Karzai. For his part, Hashmat Karzai denies any role in Waheed’s death, instead saying that the boy was shot by drug dealers intending to harm someone else

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