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KABUL — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the CIA, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former U.S. officials.
The agency pays Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force.
The situation raises questions about America’s war strategy and suggests the U.S. is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the Afghan drug trade. The New York Times
