Afghan Corruption

Karzai Asks Us to Leave (Most of) Afghanistan, and We Should Listen

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.15.2012

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Mitchell Bard

What happens next is up to the Afghan people, not us. The country's president has asked us to leave. If he doesn't want us there, we shouldn't be there. In fact, we should beat Karzai's timetable and get most of our troops out of Afghanistan as soon as is safe and practical.

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Karzai Asserts Control Over U.S.-Backed Anticorruption Units

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Upset by the recent arrest of a key adviser accused of taking a bribe, Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday sought to have...

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Afghan Corruption Czar Is "Dead Meat" If He Pursues Top Graft

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Afghan President Hamid Karzai was in Washington last month, President Obama and his aides repeatedly maintained that the Afghan leader was making...

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The Obama-Karzai Summit: A Whole Lotta Nuthin'

Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Doug Sarro

The much-heralded four-day visit by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to the United States was a bust. Far from a new beginning, all this week's Obama-Karzai summit delivered was more of the same: renewed American commitments repaid with empty rhetoric from the Afghan president.

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Withdrawals

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nick Mills

Even as the United States has ramped up its military presence in Afghanistan with the Obama Surge, other forces are poised to withdraw: the Dutch and...

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15 Afghan Ministers In Corruption Probe

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL — Three Afghan Cabinet officials and 12 former ministers are under investigation for alleged corruption, the attorney general's office sai...

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Hamid Karzai Responds To Corruption Allegations

Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview due to be broadcast tonight on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Margaret Warner talks exclusively to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about ...

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Corruption Investigation Targets Afghan Ministers

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two Afghan cabinet ministers are under investigation for alleged corruption, the attorney general's office has said....

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Afghan Poppy Palace Photo Tour

True/Slant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here in Kabul, the poor live in unimaginably squalid conditions and the rich live like kings. Kings in very ugly castles. We call them Poppy Palaces ...

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