Afghan Pres. Karzai's Brother on CIA Payroll


	Afghan Pres. Karzai's Brother on CIA Payroll

blueridge

10-28-2009 6:01 PM

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blueridge says:

Watch for an overthrow of the Karzai puppet government in total. Even Pres. Karzai (propped up in Congress by Bush in post-9/11 addresses) has become caught between U.S. and Afghan native interests, and increasingly at odds with U.S. military and the White House.

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