It’s been widely speculated that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, is deep into the drug game. (I even interviewed the Afghan ambassador to the United States about it in 2007.) Peters told me there’s no question. “I’ve been shown intelligence reports indicating he’s worked with a major drug trafficker connected to the Taliban and al-Qaeda,” she said. That would be Haji Juma Khan, the “Pablo Escobar of South Asia,” whom Peters describes as moving up to $1 billion worth of opiates annually.
Now check out this indictment of Khan from a New York Court last year. The indictment claims that Khan repeatedly kicks money up to the Taliban, and on several occasions, shortly after Khan’s payments come in, the Taliban pulls off attacks. I’m not sure how strong the connection is there — the Taliban surely have more than one revenue stream — but it’s not nothing, either. And despite the indictment, Khan’s network is still in business.
Peters — that’s Gretchen Peters, author of Seeds of Terror –told me that A.W. Karzai is the guy you want to know if you want to make sure that the police on the highway aren’t going to pull over your truck filled with drugs. He lives by Little Melvin‘s code — you are never to be seen with drugs or guns — also known as Biggie’s eighth commandment.
In case the point is lost: It is very like that CIA money has, however inadvertently, helped the Taliban. I cannot get members of Congress to even touch this shit. Only John Kerry appears upset.



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Is Kerry’s visit to Afghanistan in any way parallel to sending Powell to the UN? As in, here, let’s send someone sorta popular and use him as a messenger without reading him into the full picture.
Kerry goes to convince CIA owned election “winner” to agree to a recount to legitimize the CIA’s owned candidate and his brother to preserve CIA deal. At the expense of any credibility Kerry may have had.
Although I just can’t believe Kerry is that naive.
McChrystal’s leaking his report saying I want more troops NOW and Cheney’s saying Yeah, hurry up. Now this blows up.
Anything from Mr. Panetta yet?
Um… cue Inigo Montoya…
Inadvertently, you keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means. There is no way on earth that this was inadvertent. The CIA knew he was in the drug business with the Taliban. They are, in fact, the source of that information. They did it anyway. This was an intentional act. They paid close attention to him. They consciously accepted the fact that our money would end of funding the Taliban. It was just a cost of doing business.
Same general view.
Attackerman, hope that you saw your shout-out from Rachel Maddow last night, plus Tim Weiner’s concise analysis(“Legacy of Ashes“).
Maddow asked the question that I was hoping someone would ask: ‘why are we getting this news now?’
Weiner cut to the chase: ‘looks like the generals dimed out the spooks.’
There must be an interesting story behind that story.
One can suppose the generals must be rather irritated about any number of topics that we (i.e., taxpaying peanut gallery onlookers like myself) don’t know about.
And both Karzai’s are looking rather ‘six fingered’ at this point.
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Gen McChrystal is going to have his hands full dealing with a three ring circus in his battle space. He’s got Private security contractors doing their “wild thing”. SF doing what they do for their own reasons, get in get out, “we were never there”. And of course OGA operated indigenous para-military units/death squads.