{"id":15770,"date":"2011-07-16T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15770"},"modified":"2011-07-16T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:29:50","slug":"julius-cavendish-bodyguard-who-killed-karzais-brother-was-trusted-cia-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15770","title":{"rendered":"Julius Cavendish: Bodyguard who killed Karzai&#8217;s brother was trusted CIA contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Julius Cavendish in Kabul<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 16 July 2011<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement&#8217;s increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Sardar Mohammad, who shot Ahmed Wali Karzai at his home in Kandahar City on Tuesday, also held regular meetings with British officials, and had two brothers-in-law serving in a CIA-run paramilitary unit, the Kandahar Strike Force, the Washington Post reported yesterday. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/bodyguard-who-killed-karzais-brother-was-trusted-cia-contact-2314580.html\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Bodyguard who killed Karzai&#8217;s brother was trusted CIA contact&#8221; by Julius Cavendish<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julius Cavendish in Kabul Saturday, 16 July 2011 The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15770\">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-15770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-46m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770","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=15770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15773,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions\/15773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}