{"id":11546,"date":"2009-10-27T20:29:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11546"},"modified":"2009-10-27T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:29:38","slug":"nyt-brother-of-afghan-leader-is-said-to-be-on-c-i-a-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11546","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country\u2019s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raise significant questions about America\u2019s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/28\/world\/asia\/28intel.html\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does the relationship between the CIA and Karzai raise even one question about U.S. complicity in the heroin trade?  Of course not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There\u2019s no proof of Ahmed Wali Karzai\u2019s involvement in drug trafficking, <strong>certainly nothing that would stand up in court<\/strong>,&#8221; said one American official familiar with the intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country\u2019s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-30e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11546"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11555,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions\/11555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}