Posts Tagged ‘Mark Mazzetti’

Ahmad Wali Karzai, Brother of Hamid Karzai on CIA Payroll

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, citizenship on 27 October 2009 tagged Ahmad Wali Karzai, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Dexter Filkins, drug trade, Hamid Karzai, James Risen, Kandahar, Maj. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, Opium, taliban with View Comments

The criticisms of Ahmad Wali Karzai’s ties to the Central Intelligence Agency are all valid, and echo the concerns that many Afghans had in 2001 when the United States originally allied itself with the various Afghan warlords to oust the Taliban: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in [...]