From Dishwasher to Drug Kingpin: The Killing of Ahmad Wali Karzai
Submitted on July 13, 2011
By ERIC WALBERG - Counterpunch
Aghan President Hamid Karzai's younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house...A ruthless autocrat, he was widely despised, and escaped multiple assassination attempts in the past, but his death nonetheless comes as a major blow to President Karzai in the homeland of the Taliban, and will set off a vicious power struggle to fill Ahmad's shoes.
