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Karzai death plot aimed to ignite ethnic war
The Sunday Times SITTING on the floor of a house on the outskirts of Kabul, the Haqqani network commander sipped green tea as he calmly explained the chaos his organisation set out to cause with an elaborate plot to blow up Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace. The operation would have begun with an explosion […]
CIA links add to riddle over killing of ‘King of Kandahar’
The Sunday Times Ahmad Wali Karzai, the half-brother of the Afghan president, lived under constant fear of assassination. His death last week was the latest of 10 attempts to kill him. “The seventh bomb to target me was so big that hundreds of cats fed on human flesh for days afterwards,” he told me last […]
Miles Amoore 