CIA Pays Hamid Karzai's Brother, Says New York Times

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Today's New York Times reports that Ahmed Wali Karzai has been on the CIA payroll for the past eight years.  Not only is he the brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, he's long been a suspected player in the country's opium trade. Gretchen Peters, who has covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for Associated Press and ABC News, is author of Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.

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