
“A week after we learned that the CIA delivered bags full of cash to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in exchange for his cooperation, the United Kingdom’s MI6 admitted to doing the same thing this weekend. While the British spies say they forked over just a fraction of what their American counterparts did, the new information proves that this quasi-bribery scheme was hardly an isolated incident. In fact, it sounds like it was a big part of the allies’ operation in Afghanistan. The leader called the CIA and MI6 contributions an ‘easy source of petty cash’ for dealing with the Taliban.”
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