WikiLeaks' Afghan Revelations: Way Too Familiar
Of the more than quarter-million American documents made public over the weekend, the one that is perhaps most likely cause a stir on the Afghan street describes how authorities in Dubai working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovered that Afghanistan's former vice president, Ahmed Zia Massood, was carrying $52 million in cash on a trip to the gulf city-state last year. The cable, from the U.S. embassy in Kabul, notes that Massood was allowed to keep the money without revealing its "origin or destination." But Dubai has become a byword for dirty dealings in Afghanistan, in part because of a banking scandal over the summer. Officials with close connections to the Karzai administration allegedly made toxic investments in Dubai using tens of millions of dollars of depositor money. That precipitated a days-long bank run....
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