Daily Agitator
I read an article in the NY Times and then I heard a news bite on the tube about the story.
President Karzai’s younger half brother, long accused of links to the drugs trade, was embroiled in fresh controversy today after The New York Times reported that he had been on the CIA’s payroll for the last eight years.
Ahmad Wali Karzai had been paid by the agency for services including arranging contacts with the Taleban and helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force in the southern city of Kandahar where he lives, the newspaper said.
He was also paid for allowing the CIA, US special forces and the local militia, called the Kandahar Strike Force, to use a large compound outside the city — the former home of Mullah Omar, the Taleban’s founder — it said.
There seems to be a bit of a quandry in the news……I heard some of the pundits concerned that CIA may have a thug like this guy on their payroll……(thinking)……I ask who do you think would be on the CIA payroll? Nun? Or perhaps a priest or two?
Are you people stupid or just doing a few downers?…..Of course CIA has thugs like this a/hole on the payroll….how do you think they get things done in the shadowy world of espionage? CIA has ALWAYS had thugs on its payroll; if you want someone whacked you do not call on a preacher to do it for you…please people pay attention….you cannot be as naive as these pundits seem to be…..
Now thanks to the NY Times, this guy will be looking over his shoulder for the next thug to step up and do his job….and there is a possibility that that guy will also be on the CIA payroll. This guy’s brother, the pres of Afghanistan, might want to try and remember history a bit…..the pres of South Vietnam, Diem, was whacked by CIA thugs…they did not like his way of handling things in the country…..keep an eye on history…..my only suggestion for Karzai…..
Of course! What sort of mushy “OMG he’s not a nice guy, we shouldn’t talk to him – ask a school ma’am instead” planet do these jerks come from? Isn’t it about time the news services in all media started having some sense of both decorum and patriotism instead of publishing every bit of info they can come by.
I just hope that assholes like that find their tax returns being gone over with the same diligenct approach they apply to causing trouble for the State!
OF COURSE things go on in the world of espionage that we normal members of the public don’t approve of and would frequently prefer not to know about! Do these people have ANY IDEA what a place like Afghanistan is like? Do they seriously think you can apply the same rules and principles to the underworld of a place like that as you can to downtown Manhattan? You’d be dead in 24 hours if you did!
What worries ME about the CIA is not who they employ or even their methods (I at least quite understand that, if you want to stay alive, then you have to fight fire with fire), but what these so called pundits SHOULD be keeping a wary eye on is just what the CIA AGENDA is in various places – I’m not at all sure that such things would often stand up to any kind of scrutiny. Equally, I’m not at all sure it’s in the administration’s best interests or that of allies either!
Americans are idiots! They do not know that intel gathering is a shitty and dirty business….but they want transparency in the system….that is MORONIC…..and these pundits looking for some sort of award for investigative journalism, goes about destroying an operation that could well help with the effort against the bad guys…..and then these same assholes will bitch that nothing is being done and the effort should be abandoned…all in all a pathetic bunch of dick wads….
The Brits are the same. How stupid is it? We sit at the cinema and adore James Bond with his “007 – licence to kill” and applaud when he shoots the bad guy – and then we bitch if the real covert services smack someone on the nose!
Dick-heads all! 👿
Ass wads! They want to win the “War” on terror but they want it to be a civilized and orderly win…not happening…..
Instead of worrying about the methods of the CIA (or MI6 in the UK), I think these people would do far better to be concerned about the violent attitudes and vile bigotry of large sections of their own citizens. THEN we might get somwhere…
But that is different…at least that is what I hear here in the States……Americans believe in National; Security, but care less about the personal security of the people, as a lot…….rational ignorance effect….all over again…..