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""Ahmad Wali Karzai, a brother of Afghan President has been killed by one of his own bodyguards.
"It appears Ahmad Wali Karzai has been killed by one of his bodyguards and there was nobody from outside involved," said Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada, head of the counter-terrorism unit in the Afghan Interior Ministry informed.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai s half brother, a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Afghan government, was assassinated Tuesday at his home in southern Afghanistan, an official said.
The death of Ahmed Wali Karzai was confirmed by Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, and Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government. But the president repeatedly defended him, denouncing accusations that his brother was involved in criminal activities in the restive south.
Ahmed Wali Karzai has been the reported target of multiple assassination attempts.
In May 2009, his motorcade was ambushed by insurgents firing rockets and machine guns in eastern Nangarhar province. One of his bodyguards was killed, but he was not harmed.
That attack came less than two months after four Taliban suicide bombers stormed Kandahar s provincial council office, killing 13 people in an assault that Ahmed Wali Karzai said was aimed at him. A Taliban spokesman said the attack targeted the general compound. The president s half brother had left the building a few minutes before that attack."'
dunyanews was reporting this. his bodyguard killed him,
"It appears Ahmad Wali Karzai has been killed by one of his bodyguards and there was nobody from outside involved," said Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada, head of the counter-terrorism unit in the Afghan Interior Ministry informed.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai s half brother, a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Afghan government, was assassinated Tuesday at his home in southern Afghanistan, an official said.
The death of Ahmed Wali Karzai was confirmed by Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, and Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government. But the president repeatedly defended him, denouncing accusations that his brother was involved in criminal activities in the restive south.
Ahmed Wali Karzai has been the reported target of multiple assassination attempts.
In May 2009, his motorcade was ambushed by insurgents firing rockets and machine guns in eastern Nangarhar province. One of his bodyguards was killed, but he was not harmed.
That attack came less than two months after four Taliban suicide bombers stormed Kandahar s provincial council office, killing 13 people in an assault that Ahmed Wali Karzai said was aimed at him. A Taliban spokesman said the attack targeted the general compound. The president s half brother had left the building a few minutes before that attack."'
dunyanews was reporting this. his bodyguard killed him,
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Ahmed Wali Karzai And CIA’s Covert Afghan Empire
Afghanistan is CIA’s biggest playground in the world today, away from the prying eyes of US media and Congress. The murder of Wali Karzai creates a big hole in CIA’s hold in the occupied country.
KABUL, Afghanistan—President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother and the kingmaker of Kandahar was a CIA asset.
He was also a symbol of CIA’s growing covert empire in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan today is CIA’s last free base of operations in the world. The agency is freer here than anywhere else, including the US. Here, the intelligence agency is plotting against regional powers such as China, Pakistan and Russia, and financing these plans through opium trade, free from Congressional oversight.
It can’t get better for CIA than this. Hence the agency’s insistence to stay in the region and resist any US withdrawal or end to the war in Afghanistan.
ASSET
Ahmed Wali Karzai symbolized how the United States operates in Afghanistan. The entire American occupation of Afghanistan continues to be based on secret dealings with shady killers and drug pushers. These allies of the US are corrupt to the core. Their existence in power belies Washington’s rosy pronouncements about human rights, democracy and a new era in Afghanistan.
The CIA has always felt easy dealing with such characters because they helped the agency do much of the dirty work that it can’t otherwise do by law.
The agency needed people like Wali Karzai to help it cultivate opium to finance its covert operations in the region not sanctioned by US government or Congress. Taliban ended this trade but CIA revived it after 2002 to finance its burgeoning secret empire in Afghanistan away from the prying eyes of US Congress that checks the agency’s budget.
The CIA-Wali Karzai relationship could have continued uninterrupted if not for political infighting in Washington DC.
Karzai’s cover was blown not in Afghanistan but inside the United States, when rivalries inside Washington DC over Afghan policy under President Obama pushed someone to expose CIA’s close relationship with the wrong people in the occupied country.
The wily younger Karzai became a marked man since that day.
The junior Karzai was killed by a trusted aide, most probably as a result of a feud.
His death represents a huge loss for CIA at a difficult time, creating a huge vacuum in the Pashtun strongholds of southern Afghanistan. It is akin to opening a front for the CIA and US military in their own backyard when they least need such a distraction.
The message his murder sends to the US-propped ruling elite is devastating. It says that neither CIA nor US military can protect you if you are their ally in Afghanistan.
There is no immediate threat to US occupation in Afghanistan after Mr. Karzai’s death, but the symbolism cannot be avoided.
It is one more sign of the beginning of the end.
Afghanistan is CIA’s biggest playground in the world today, away from the prying eyes of US media and Congress. The murder of Wali Karzai creates a big hole in CIA’s hold in the occupied country.
KABUL, Afghanistan—President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother and the kingmaker of Kandahar was a CIA asset.
He was also a symbol of CIA’s growing covert empire in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan today is CIA’s last free base of operations in the world. The agency is freer here than anywhere else, including the US. Here, the intelligence agency is plotting against regional powers such as China, Pakistan and Russia, and financing these plans through opium trade, free from Congressional oversight.
It can’t get better for CIA than this. Hence the agency’s insistence to stay in the region and resist any US withdrawal or end to the war in Afghanistan.
ASSET
Ahmed Wali Karzai symbolized how the United States operates in Afghanistan. The entire American occupation of Afghanistan continues to be based on secret dealings with shady killers and drug pushers. These allies of the US are corrupt to the core. Their existence in power belies Washington’s rosy pronouncements about human rights, democracy and a new era in Afghanistan.
The CIA has always felt easy dealing with such characters because they helped the agency do much of the dirty work that it can’t otherwise do by law.
The agency needed people like Wali Karzai to help it cultivate opium to finance its covert operations in the region not sanctioned by US government or Congress. Taliban ended this trade but CIA revived it after 2002 to finance its burgeoning secret empire in Afghanistan away from the prying eyes of US Congress that checks the agency’s budget.
The CIA-Wali Karzai relationship could have continued uninterrupted if not for political infighting in Washington DC.
Karzai’s cover was blown not in Afghanistan but inside the United States, when rivalries inside Washington DC over Afghan policy under President Obama pushed someone to expose CIA’s close relationship with the wrong people in the occupied country.
The wily younger Karzai became a marked man since that day.
The junior Karzai was killed by a trusted aide, most probably as a result of a feud.
His death represents a huge loss for CIA at a difficult time, creating a huge vacuum in the Pashtun strongholds of southern Afghanistan. It is akin to opening a front for the CIA and US military in their own backyard when they least need such a distraction.
The message his murder sends to the US-propped ruling elite is devastating. It says that neither CIA nor US military can protect you if you are their ally in Afghanistan.
There is no immediate threat to US occupation in Afghanistan after Mr. Karzai’s death, but the symbolism cannot be avoided.
It is one more sign of the beginning of the end.
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Bodyguard who killed Karzai's brother was trusted CIA contact
Saturday, 16 July 2011
The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai'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's increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan.
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.
Yet evidence is emerging that the Taliban recruited Mohammad – who was believed to be a friend, confidant and trusted lieutenant of Ahmed Wali Karzai – in an infiltration of the Afghan government's security apparatus.
"Our investigation shows that for the last three months he was acting out of character, not normal, erratic," said Mahmoud Karzai, another Karzai brother. "He wasn't sleeping, he was nervous, he was getting phone calls in the middle of the night, and our information shows he made a trip to Quetta [in Pakistan] and met with some Taliban. His father was a mullah. So all these things combined, plus the Taliban claim of responsibility... but our preliminary investigation indicates this was the work of the Taliban."
Security analysts say that, if true, it shows not only the problems facing the Afghan army and police as they start taking control of the country from Nato, but also how sophisticated Taliban intelligence operations have become.
The immediate assumption after Ahmed Karzai's death was that Mohammad was pursuing a personal vendetta, largely because the notion of defection to the Taliban was so hard to credit. But that seems to be what happened. The insurgents "get these very big victories quite often and I think probably we underestimate the [Taliban's] intelligence components," said one Western analyst.
"They do have dedicated intelligence officers. And that's not just about gathering information but also about infiltration, using whatever combination of blackmail or ideological levers [they need to ... The killing] is a really excellent indication of the sophistication of Taliban intelligence networks. It's something we don't know enough about – how it breaks down," the analyst said.
There has been a string of high-profile attacks by the Taliban against Afghan government officials, and a number of instances of agents infiltrating the Afghan security forces and killing Afghan or Nato troops.
On 28 May, General Daud, the top police commander in northern Afghanistan, was killed by a bomb as he met Nato officials. In Kandahar, the deputy governor and the chief of police were assassinated earlier this year.
But what makes Mohammad's defection so remarkable is just how close he was to Ahmed Wali Karzai. The Washington Post says he met the Kandahar strongman six days a week.
Ahmed Wali Karzai would pay the salaries of his policemen if the government was in arrears, and had taken his mother to Mohammad's house.
Bodyguard who killed Karzai's brother was trusted CIA contact - Asia, World - The Independent
Saturday, 16 July 2011
The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai'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's increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan.
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.
Yet evidence is emerging that the Taliban recruited Mohammad – who was believed to be a friend, confidant and trusted lieutenant of Ahmed Wali Karzai – in an infiltration of the Afghan government's security apparatus.
"Our investigation shows that for the last three months he was acting out of character, not normal, erratic," said Mahmoud Karzai, another Karzai brother. "He wasn't sleeping, he was nervous, he was getting phone calls in the middle of the night, and our information shows he made a trip to Quetta [in Pakistan] and met with some Taliban. His father was a mullah. So all these things combined, plus the Taliban claim of responsibility... but our preliminary investigation indicates this was the work of the Taliban."
Security analysts say that, if true, it shows not only the problems facing the Afghan army and police as they start taking control of the country from Nato, but also how sophisticated Taliban intelligence operations have become.
The immediate assumption after Ahmed Karzai's death was that Mohammad was pursuing a personal vendetta, largely because the notion of defection to the Taliban was so hard to credit. But that seems to be what happened. The insurgents "get these very big victories quite often and I think probably we underestimate the [Taliban's] intelligence components," said one Western analyst.
"They do have dedicated intelligence officers. And that's not just about gathering information but also about infiltration, using whatever combination of blackmail or ideological levers [they need to ... The killing] is a really excellent indication of the sophistication of Taliban intelligence networks. It's something we don't know enough about – how it breaks down," the analyst said.
There has been a string of high-profile attacks by the Taliban against Afghan government officials, and a number of instances of agents infiltrating the Afghan security forces and killing Afghan or Nato troops.
On 28 May, General Daud, the top police commander in northern Afghanistan, was killed by a bomb as he met Nato officials. In Kandahar, the deputy governor and the chief of police were assassinated earlier this year.
But what makes Mohammad's defection so remarkable is just how close he was to Ahmed Wali Karzai. The Washington Post says he met the Kandahar strongman six days a week.
Ahmed Wali Karzai would pay the salaries of his policemen if the government was in arrears, and had taken his mother to Mohammad's house.
Bodyguard who killed Karzai's brother was trusted CIA contact - Asia, World - The Independent
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