How America Runs Its Own Private Militias in Afghanistan, And Outsources Them To Drug Barons And Mafia Overlords
INTRODUCTION
The death of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and provincial council chief of Kandahar province, has brought the War in Afghanistan to a crossroads. Beyond his death, both President Karzai and the US and its allies are at a loss for what endgame they plan now.
THE KING OF KANDAHAR
Ahmed Wali Karzai was commonly understood to be a CIA asset for the past nine years - a characteristic that can neither be confirmed nor be denied. He is said to have received payments from the CIA for a variety of jobs - providing information, ANA/ANP recruits, bases, and often interfacing with local tribal leaders on behalf of ISAF as the official part of the alliance with the US. Earliest sources place Ahmed Wali Karzai during the Taliban reign as the manager of a family-run Afghan restaurant on North Halsted Street in the Chicago's Wrigleyville district, serving aushak (leek dumplings) and lamb dopiaza (tenderloin sauteed with yellow split-peas and onions). How this small-time restaurant owner in the US turned into multi-billionaire politician and "tribal elder" in Kandahar is a classic story of the CIA propping up its own frontmen as Third World "leaders". Steve Coll has called him "the most visible, intractable symbol of the corruption and the corporate self-interest of the Karzai government in southern Afghanistan".
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