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US Pays Millions of Dollars To Hamid Karzai

New York Times has just broken a story that the CIA has been paying

'wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency...
One should be shocked, but nobody is.

The US has been known to pump in Millions of Dollars to Foreign Politicians to those who are in power and Opposition, the latter as an insurance.

The list is big, starting from Ayub Khan,Yahya Khan.Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Perevez Musharraf of Pakistan, their opposition Leaders like Nawaz Sharief.leading Politicians from India ,Sri Lanka,all the countries from the Third World have been the recipients of the US's largesse, not to forget the African, Latin American Countries.

Nothing needs to be said of Central America.

This,in addition to funds dispersed to Insurgents, natural or CIA inspired.

Captured Osama’s Son In Law was in Iran prison

That Osama Bin Laden's son in law, who Abu Ghaith , who was born in Kuwait in 1965, was snatched by the CIA is old news.

He was in Iran prison , released, entered Turkey illegally and was herded by the CIA in Jodran while he was on his way to Kuwait.

Why and how he was released by Iran is a mystery!

How the CIA snatched him is not clear.
Records compiled by a United Nations sanctions committee show that Abu Ghaith was born in Kuwait in 1965, but that he left Kuwait for Pakistan in June 2001.

At one point, he married one of bin Laden's daughters. Her identity was not immediately known.

After the September 11 attacks, Abu Ghaith first surfaced as one of al-Qaeda's main spokesmen.

Later, U.S. officials believe he was part of a group of top figures in the group that included one of bin Laden's sons, Saad, who allegedly traveled to Iran, where the Iranian government claimed they were 'in custody.'

The Long War Journal, a counterterrorism blog published by the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, reported in 2010 that Abu Ghaith had been released by Iranian authorities and supposedly had returned to Afghanistan.

Senior Republican Rep Peter King announced Ghaith's arrest on Thursday, hailing it as a 'very significant victory' in the ongoing fight against al-Qaeda.

King, the former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the CIA and FBI had caught Ghaith within the last week.

He said the arrest was confirmed by U.S. law enforcement officials.