Report: Bodyguard Who Assassinated Karzai’s Brother Had Been Working With CIA, U.S. Special Forces…
Not exactly an encouraging sign this guy was recruited by the Taliban after being a trusted CIA contact.
(The Independent) — The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai’s brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement’s increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan.
Sardar Mohammad, who shot Ahmed Wali Karzai at his home in Kandahar City on Tuesday, also held regular meetings with British officials, and had two brothers-in-law serving in a CIA-run paramilitary unit, the Kandahar Strike Force, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
Yet evidence is emerging that the Taliban recruited Mohammad — who was believed to be a friend, confidant and trusted lieutenant of Ahmed Wali Karzai — in an infiltration of the Afghan government’s security apparatus.
“Our investigation shows that for the last three months he was acting out of character, not normal, erratic,” said Mahmoud Karzai, another Karzai brother. “He wasn’t sleeping, he was nervous, he was getting phone calls in the middle of the night, and our information shows he made a trip to Quetta [in Pakistan] and met with some Taliban. His father was a mullah. So all these things combined, plus the Taliban claim of responsibility. . . but our preliminary investigation indicates this was the work of the Taliban.”
Security analysts say that, if true, it shows not only the problems facing the Afghan army and police as they start taking control of the country from Nato, but also how sophisticated Taliban intelligence operations have become.
Posted by ZIP on Saturday, July 16, 2011, at 10:38 pm | 
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They found out who he was and threatened to kill everyone he’d ever known.
In the world of spooks, there are layers and layers of insulation. Whatever work he did for the Agency and SF was done in a very compartmentalized environment. In fact, he was probably recruited knowing he was a Taliban agent because that’s the way the Intelligence community works – he’s fed bullshit that sounds real while a small amount of intel is gathered from him in order to put the puzzle together. And I’m confident there’s more than this one operation going on in order to get a broader picture. Believe me, the Agency and other Intel groups know the Afghan Army and police are full of Taliban and terrorists. Not that I would ever know about things like this.
“and our information shows he made a trip to Quetta [in Pakistan]”
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And now we know exactly who was leaning on him.
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I can’t keep track of all this, so this was a talibhan informant who the CIA used who then killed the half brother of Karzai?
my head hurts, but karzai’s brother was a bad guy, right? oy! again I can’t keep track anymore of any of this, everyday, things are unravelling all over the place in that part of the world.
I don’t know how our military can keep track of all these ever changing alliances, groups. god bless and protect them for doing their best to protect our country , that middle east region is just a mess. a complete mess.
(the only exception is Israel, and President WTF wants to change that!)
I am starting to think that we can not trust any of them. Well not really.
@joeswampy
Read the book “The Only Thing Worth Dying For” by Eric Blehm and you can get a clear picture of what a mess Afghanistan really is. Karzai was a tribal war lord before the gig he’s in now. It was literally a race against competing warlords and the Taliban to install him as the leader in an attempt to stabilize the country. This country will NEVER be stable nor will the Middle East; it’s too much of a 7th century shit hole with backward ass people who do not have the ability and mental faculties to ever move into the 21st century. Best thing to do is to leave the place now. And if they ever start any global trouble again – nuke them out of existence.
If we ever pull out all of our troops from that mess, Karzai will have the shelf life of a tuna sandwich on the deck of a fishing boat in Mexico.
His ass will be toast and he knows he needs us, so the guy better play ball with us if he wants to continue to have a pulse.
Both media outlets cited have no idea whats really happened but present one possible piece of a very convoluted puzzle.
All I know is this – as long as they keep whacking one another.. its all good.
As long as they are killing themselves, it is better for the west. Read the works of Hugh Fitzgerald…….. He is on jihadwatch.org and he is not kidding. He makes sense about islam.
@13times
I too have wondered if it isn’t better to keep them fighting against each other so they’ll be too busy to attack us. Too bad Mr. Self-Righteous Omnipotent Jimmy Carter wasted time boycotting the Olympics instead of just letting the Soviets own the whole mess in Afghanistan.
The entire intel community has been infiltrated by jihadist symathizers. Its just the intel community its every level of US government. Its like the Gestapo is telling FDR how to run the war.
These morons don’t even know who the enemy is. That some field agents “get it” would not be out of the question. But when you have dullards like Clapper and Pinheadah in the mix, its no wonder that our intel sucks.
These people don’t do Sun Tzu anymore. They bought into the CAIR lies about multiculturalism and moderate Pisslam.
Intel failures will continue until we purge the agencies of CAIR and the idiotic Plames, and Clappers that are running the show.
Its time to acknowledge the real enemy of Afghanistan and the West which is the supremacist imperialist philosophy of a delluded Bedouin pedophile.
Until that day comes, we will lose these wars.
Can’t trust anyone these days.
Damned if you do…and damned it you don’t when you get involved with helping out the US…depending on which political party is Prez in the US.
Think about it.
Question the CIA ANALysts are now asking themselves:
Did the chicken come before the egg, or the egg Before the chicken?!
All the ripening poppies and no real leadership, what a shame.
Shortcut to Hell says:
All the ripening poppies and no real leadership, what a shame.
LOL! You cynical SOB! I’m lucky I already finished my coffee!
Citizen! Be thankful that Comrade Panetta has completed his rebuilding of this great organization and will continue to do the same to the great Army of Freedom!
He killed a Muslim? Must be some kind of Islamophobe incited by Pam Geller.
Maybe it was time for Ahmed to go.