A Reminder Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Lessor Profits
"... Anyone keeping up with the complete timeline of the “greater” Afghanistan war has to love the irony of the twisted course of events. Here you have the President’s brother working directly with the C.I.A. and making some big bucks in their efforts to stabilize the country. At the same time, this self-same individual serves as the foremost figure behind the world’s largest opium market. When asked about his involvement in the Afghan drug trade, he denied the allegations and during the same interview, denied working directly with the C.I.A. ... (excerpt, 11.01.09 HERE)"C.I.A. Groundhog Day
By Los [HERE]
"The New York Times published an insightful piece on the state of the war in Afghanistan on today’s front page. In short: Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother to Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been made an honorary member of the world’s most coveted and notorious V.I.P. list: the C.I.A. payroll! While the announcement may come as a shock to some, the fact that Mr. Karzai has been in bed with the C.I.A. for the past eight years is the undeniable reality of the struggling and troubled American-Afghan alliance ..." (ibid).
"... Time has shown over and over again, in almost perfect cyclical repetition of the same scenario, that when the C.I.A. helps, trains, supports and/or installs strong men in any part of the third world, because they want these men to be strong and militarily prominent, the C.I.A. wants to see them involved with the strongest local economic forces which time and time again, have proven to be the drug markets. Thus, the fact that these individuals are involved in drug trafficking is quite normal, because the main constant in the experiment is that drug trafficking is the sort of thing C.I.A. clients tend to do ...(ibid)"End Note: " ...The actions of the Reagan Administration during the Iran-Contra scandal revealed "a pattern of conduct and a state of mind among important people in this administration which must be described as an American style of fascism. I would prefer to avoid that term, but it is the only one in the modern political vocabulary that adequately describes the situation. ... (William Pfaff, Chicago Tribune, March, 1987: HERE)..."
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