“..Karzai’s Brother On C.I.A. Payroll..” (that’s the brother who is a major player in the opium trade..eh..?..)
“..Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the president of Afghanistan ..
.. gets regular payments from the CIA .. and has for much of the past eight years, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The newspaper said that according to current and former American officials, the CIA pays Karzai for a variety of services ..
.. including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force .. that operates at the CIA’s direction in and around Kandahar.
The CIA’s ties to Karzai, who is a suspected player in the country’s illegal opium trade ..
.. have created deep divisions within the Obama administration, the Times said.
Allegations that Karzai is involved in the drug trade have circulated in Kabul for months.
He denies them.
Critics say the ties with Karzai complicate the United States’ increasingly tense relationship with his older brother, President Hamid Karzai.
The CIA’s practices also suggest that the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade ..
.. a major source of revenue for the Taliban..”
(so..let’s see if we’ve got this right..karzai supplies the c.i.a. with killers..
and in turn..is allowed to ply his killer-trade..
um..!..is anyone else seeing echoes of the c.i.a. helping to transport heroin..via ‘air america’..their airline..
..during the vietnam war..?)
go to source/story>>Karzai’s Brother On C.I.A. Payroll: NYT