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Mon May-18-09 09:52 AM
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Karzai brother 'survives attack'

Source: BBC

Ahmad Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, says he has survived an ambush on his convoy in the east.

Mr Karzai, leader of the provincial council in Kandahar, said one of his bodyguards was killed by the attackers, who used rockets and machine-guns.

His convoy was ambushed when it was travelling to the capital, Kabul. It is not known who the attackers were.

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"We were driving to Kabul. All of a sudden we were attacked from the mountains by rockets and PK machine-guns," Mr Ahmad Wali Karzai was quoted by news agency AFP as saying.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8055247.stm

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Mon May-18-09 10:58 AM
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1. Is he the brother who works in the "export" business?

Horse exporter?

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Demeter

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Mon May-18-09 01:14 PM
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2. If by Horse, you Mean Heroin

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DLnyc

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Mon May-18-09 06:31 PM
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3. Surprise, surprise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Wali_Karzai
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Karzai is also an elder of the Popalzais, a Pashtun clan. It has been alleged that he is a prominent figure in the drug trade, controlling a significant proportion of Afghan heroin production.<2> Numerous reports link Ahmed Wali Karzai to the drug trade, according to current and former officials from the White House, the State Department and the United States Embassy in Afghanistan, who would speak only on the condition of anonymity. In meetings with President Karzai, including a 2006 session with the United States ambassador, the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief and their British counterparts, American officials have talked about the allegations in hopes that the president might move his brother out of the country, said several people who took part in or were briefed on the talks.

“We thought the concern expressed to Karzai might be enough to get him out of there,” one official said. But President Karzai has resisted, demanding clear-cut evidence of wrongdoing, several officials said. “We don’t have the kind of hard, direct evidence that you could take to get a criminal indictment,” a White House official said. “That allows Karzai to say, ‘where’s your proof?’ ”.<2>
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Alamuti Lotus

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Mon May-18-09 07:07 PM
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4. That's too bad

the 'surviving' part, that is. Near miss at having one less drug-running warlord on the American government payroll.

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