Suspected Afghan Drug Dealer on C.I.A. Payroll

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To get started, ever since we occupied Afghanistan, opium harvests and heroin production have sky rocketed there. They still grow more than 90% of the world’s illegal opium poppies, the source of heroin.

Here’s a nice graph:

Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation 1994-2007

Then I saw this today:

@NYTimes.com

Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s 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.

The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home.

The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raise significant questions about America’s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.

The ties to Mr. Karzai have created deep divisions within the Obama administration. The critics say the ties complicate America’s increasingly tense relationship with President Hamid Karzai, who has struggled to build sustained popularity among Afghans and has long been portrayed by the Taliban as an American puppet. The C.I.A.’s practices also suggest that the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the Taliban.

More broadly, some American officials argue that the reliance on Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful figure in a large area of southern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgency is strongest, undermines the American push to develop an effective central government that can maintain law and order and eventually allow the United States to withdraw.

“If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves,” said Maj. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the senior American military intelligence official in Afghanistan.

Ahmed Wali Karzai said in an interview that he cooperated with American civilian and military officials, but did not engage in the drug trade and did not receive payments from the C.I.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=1&hp

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[newman]

Drugs like that are population control.

[Blue_Eyed_Devil]

Big shock. UBL was on the payroll as well.:gotme:

[yunvme666]

@newman

Drugs like that are population control.

my thaughts exactly, like why cant they make crack stronger…lol… think about all the space it would free up…lol…

[nappy1380]

The US is also one of the biggest arms dealers in the world. This is not shocking.

[theblue]

200,000 what? plants? I don’t even know if I trust the data on something like this since it’s all illegal.

[JayS]

We need to invent a drug that is the equivalent of russian roulette. Hell of a rush for up to 5 tries but guaranteed to remove you from society on the 6th try. And hey, maybe society gets lucky and you’re gone on the first hit.

[BOBBYGRV]

@nappy1380

The US is also one of the biggest arms dealers in the world. This is not shocking.

We are selling the guns to the middle east that are killing our soldiers/women and children. I believe its all apart of population and control.

[JayS]

@bobbyg1243

We are selling the guns to the middle east that are killing our soldiers/women and children. I believe its all apart of population and control.

Any proof of that? Everything I’ve seen has never even implied the insurgents are using US weapons.

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i wouldnt count that out, however, US produced goods cost way more than the guns that are already made in the middle east.

there is a documentary online where this journalist went into some crazy mountain city over there and little children were assembling hand guns in huts. Blind dudes too. It was the primary industry in the town, the assembly of fire arms.

the shooting range was on top of a building in the city where they fired into the air…

wait… is this the all that is man thread?

[cougarspeed]

@bobbyg1243

We are selling the guns to the middle east that are killing our soldiers/women and children. I believe its all apart of population and control.

LOL also in for facts or you can just admit that you made that up.

[Freek]

Sometimes i forget how uninformed the US population really is. here are some facts:

1)we pay everyone over there for everything.
ex. A us soldier arrests a bad guy and he doesn’t get convicted bacause there isn’t enough evidence he get’s paid a few hundred and goes on his merry way to set up another IED

2)almost every official in afghanistan is corrupt.
ex. the afghani govenor in my AO got very upset we had our COPs (civil order police) bust up a suicide vest ring. Why? because he was getting money to pretect it.

3. If by chance an official is not corrupt. he works in favor of his region/clan/area/people/family
   EX. the curremt (i think his title is) commander of the afghani armed forces. He was also in charge under russian and birtish control. He’s always worked to help his won family out over the good of the country.

4. the right hand has no clue what anyone else is doing in afghanistan.
   ex. there are so many diffrent groups (govenments/agencies within govenments etc. etc.) that everyone is kind of on their own doign their own thing. the CIA works undermines the army. the US SOG work undermines the french armys work. The group of pissed off marines who slaughtered an entire village because 3 of their men died undermines the general goal of everyone.

That’s just the tip of the ice burg. I’m sure some of the other vets on here have some stories themselves. The only thing these people understand are bribes and death. Death’s lesson lasts much longer on their minds but it’s messier. Money is something the CIA can throw at a problem and make it go away for a while.

[Freek]

@bobbyg1243

We are selling the guns to the middle east that are killing our soldiers/women and children. I believe its all apart of population and control.

if by middle east you mean Saudi Arabia then yes. However those guns are not killing our soldiers. The war going on is in Iraq.

Cold war surplus is MUCH cheaper and much more accessable. Plus how would it look if old M16a2s were in the hands of teliban. You would NEVER see it.

[theblue]

I thought guns didn’t kill people

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there is a documentary online where this journalist went into some crazy mountain city over there and little children were assembling hand guns in huts. Blind dudes too. It was the primary industry in the town, the assembly of fire arms.

the shooting range was on top of a building in the city where they fired into the air…

wait… is this the all that is man thread?

someone find this video…

i was googling the hell out of it then i realized i’m putting kids, guns and afgahnistan into a search engine at work and decided to stop

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@bing

someone find this video…

i was googling the hell out of it then i realized i’m putting kids, guns and afgahnistan into a search engine at work and decided to stop

LOL
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[travisn]

@JayS

We need to invent a drug that is the equivalent of russian roulette. Hell of a rush for up to 5 tries but guaranteed to remove you from society on the 6th try. And hey, maybe society gets lucky and you’re gone on the first hit.

I thought most drugs could kill you on first use, they just dont most of the time?

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@theblue

200,000 what? plants? I don’t even know if I trust the data on something like this since it’s all illegal.

My bad, this particular graph measures in hectares and was taken from wikipedia which uses data from the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime).

Opium production in Afghanistan

[97_B18b1]

the cia is the most evil corrupt cowardly group of thieves on the planet and it should be abolished and every single one of its agents interrigated.