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The CIA Gave Millions in Cash to Afghan President for Over a Decade
Taylor Berman · 04/28/13 09:39PMRobert Kessler · 01/11/13 03:15PM
American Soldier Murders 16 Civilians in Afghanistan (UPDATED)
Louis Peitzman · 03/11/12 11:23AM
An American soldier opened fire on civilians in Kandahar Sunday, killing 16 Afghans including 9 children and 3 women. While most reports say a single soldier is accountable for the massacre, some eyewitness accounts maintain it was a group of American soldiers "who were laughing and appeared drunk."
Clinton, Karzai Laugh at Herman Cain's Silly Talk
Jim Newell · 10/20/11 11:58AMIn another disturbing confirmation that, yes, the rest of the world is watching, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appears to have caught that clip of Herman Cain dismissing "insignificant" countries like "Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan" as things that aren't worth learning about. He even got Hillary Clinton to bring it up during their latest meeting, to share a laugh. "That wasn't right, but anyway, that's how politics are," Karzai empathized.
Drug Lord Brother of Afghan President Assassinated
Jeff Neumann · 07/12/11 04:03AMIt's a good day to be an enterprising heroin dealer in southern Afghanistan. Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother of President Hamid Karzai, was shot and killed by a family bodyguard at his home in Kandahar, where he was the chief of the provincial council. The deceased is said to have been the owner of truckloads of heroin over the years, but to be fair, in a 2008 interview with the New York Times he said, "I am not a drug dealer, I never was and I never will be." So take that for what's it worth?
Barack Obama's Surprise Trip to Afghanistan Is a Disaster So Far
John Cook · 12/03/10 01:42PMKarzai Admits to Taking Cash from Iran
Max Read · 10/25/10 09:05PMMurderous Zealots, Corrupt Government in Talks to End Afghan War
Max Read · 10/19/10 08:10PMHillary-ous
Brian Moylan · 07/20/10 06:08PMPresident of Afghanistan on Drugs, Which Is Honestly Least of Their Problems
Pareene · 04/06/10 01:41PMThe Afghanistan Elections for People Who Aren't Paying Attention
Pareene · 08/25/09 01:47PMWhich Foreign Dignitaries Did Sarah Palin Actually Meet?
Moe · 09/23/08 07:38PMSarah Palin increased her foreign policy experience by 475% today and the media wasn't allowed to hear any of it! Because Sarah Palin doesn't really speak to the media much/ever, so they have to follow her around and ask the photographers dispatched to capture the photo ops what they heard her say, as if she is just like her new pal Henry Kissinger and she is engaging in top-secret high-level diplomatic negotiations. Except… at the end of the meetings the ensuing media accounts don't have anything to write about, because nothing actually transpired, so the poor journalists are left to write about how she lipsynched that she "had a good time" meeting the emperor of Tokyo or whatever. So what's a bigger waste of time than following Sarah Palin around while she says nothing about meaningless meetings with foreign dignitaries? Making up fictional event-free meetings with foreign dignitaries for the sake of a pointless quiz to see if you can tell which ones actually (pointlessly) happened!Three of these meetings actually happened, according to the Times website. Three just happened the way I imagined they would were I a reporter assigned to watch various other foreign dignitaries harmlessly shaking hands and exchanging niceties with Sarah Palin before being ushered off to exchange more niceties and possibly a game recipe or two. Guess which is which! 1. Talking Georgia With Kissinger