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Brain -> Antigraft Units, Backed by U.S., Draw Karzais Ire (8/7/2010 2:32:06 AM)
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Karzai is wrong. This is an unacceptable waste of taxpayer money. Those bastards get rich stealing and laugh at our stupidity.
FTA:
The Karzai aide, Mohammed Zia Saleh, head of administration for Afghanistan’s National Security Council, was arrested late in July. According to a Western official with knowledge of the case, the arrest came after investigators wiretapped Mr. Saleh soliciting bribes from the New Ansari Exchange, a money exchange operation, to impede an investigation into the company’s role in exporting large amounts of cash from the country.
Antigraft Units, Backed by U.S., Draw Karzai’s Ire
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has promised to root out corruption, but after one of his own top aides was arrested by American-supported antigraft units recently, he fired back by investigating the investigators and apparently seeking control over their actions.
He convened a commission ultimately reporting that the anticorruption investigators were violating the human rights of suspects they arrested. Aides to the president also complained that they violated the nation’s sovereignty because of the American role in the investigations.
The controversy set up yet another serious divide between American officials and Mr. Karzai at a time when the Obama administration has made combating corruption in the Afghan government a major policy goal. Congress is withholding $4 billion in financing to Afghanistan over a case closely related to the arrest of Mr. Karzai’s aide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/world/asia/07afghan.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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