All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The NY Times:
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. (read the article)

New York Times:
When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss.
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AP:
Officials say they have arrested two Afghan government employees for alleged involvement in a plot to kill President Hamid Karzai.
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The Daily Times:
Afghan spy chief says militants behind plot were in phone contact with people in Bajaur, Waziristan and Peshawar. Pakistan on Wednesday denied allegations that a plot to kill Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during a military parade over the weekend was hatched in its Tribal Areas, AP reported. (read the article)

The Independent:
Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, narrowly escaped assassination yesterday, when Taliban militants attacked a military parade in the capital, Kabul.
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