The First Post (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Grave accusations have been laid this week that Ahmed Wali Karzai has profited serially from the Afghan narcotics trade and has been protected by his brother President…
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Ahmed Wali Karzai said the accusations against him were "baseless" and represented political pressure on the president following his criticism of a recent U.S. airstrike.
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The White House says it believes that Ahmed Wali Karzai is involved in drug trafficking, and American officials have repeatedly warned President Karzai that his brother is a political liability, two senior Bush administration officials said in interviews last week.
cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Captain Obvious strikes again. Via: 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. Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone call from Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of [...]...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
President Hamid Karzai's brother denied Monday that he has ever been involved in Afghanistan's heroin trade, and accused U.S. officials of fabricating allegations to harm the president.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
President Hamid Karzai's brother denied Monday that he has ever been involved in Afghanistan's heroin trade, and accused U.S. officials of fabricating allegations to harm the president.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai's brother denied Monday that he has ever been involved in Afghanistan's heroin trade, and accused U.S. officials of fabricating allegations to harm the president.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The brother of President Hamid Karzai, in reaction to a story in The New York Times that focused on reports linking him to involvement in the Afghan heroin trade, on Monday called the allegations "baseless."
NHatky (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Kabul: Six civilians were killed when a suicide bomber in a car targeted the brother of President Hamid Karzai in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday, according to government sources. The bomb injured 43 people, however, Ahmed Wali Karzai escaped uninjured when the attacker blew up his car ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Kabul - Six civilians were killed when a bomb-filled fuel tanker exploded close to the building where the brother of President Hamid Karzai was attending a meeting in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday, according to government sources. Th...
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
() -- The US military said Nov. 5 that it will investigate a report that an air-strike hit a wedding party in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, killing dozens of civilians and prompting new protests from President Hamid Karzai. "We cannot win the fight against terrorism with air-strikes," Karzai told reporters in Kabul, hours after Barack Obama won the US presidential race. "This...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Taliban insurgents in a remote village northeast of Kandahar provoked an attack by coalition troops that devastated a wedding party on Monday and resulted in dozens of civilian deaths, the top politician in Kandahar has told The Globe and Mail.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... Canada and the government of Afghanistan. And that's all I'll say in that regard."In Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, chairman of Kandahar's provincial council and brother of President Hamid Karzai, denied that any transactions - including prisoner exchanges or government payments to the insurgents for information - were made."There is absolutely nothing, no exchange,...
Amused Cynicism (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Guess who’s the biggest player in Afghanistan’s heroin trafficking business? None other than the president, Hamid Karzai: Drawing almost entirely upon sources within the U.S. government in Washington, the Times fingered Ahmed Wali Karzai as the biggest drug trafficker in Kandahar Province. Why was this story not reported from Afghanistan? Because it is well understood by...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Afghan President's Brother Denies Links to Heroin TradeBy Steve HermanKabul06 October 2008The brother of Afghanistan's president is vehemently denying his alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade. Ahmed Wali Karzai told reporters in Kandahar that he will file a lawsuit against the New York Times newspaper, which most recently reported the allegation. VOA Correspondent Steve...
