Who will really miss Karzai's slain brother?

July 13, 2011 11:53

Also from Foreign Policy magazine: Who will really miss Ahmed Wali Karzai.

In a way, AWK, as he was known, was the penultimate Afghan leader: Deeply popular to his followers, hated and feared by everyone else, involved in a number of questionable activities, but utterly essential to the American presence.

Rumors abound that he was on the payroll of the CIA, that he ran his own private army, that he was a vital node in monitoring and attacking the insurgency in the country's south.

Like Afghanistan itself, AWK was fascinating, dangerous, and tightly controlled Western access to his domain.

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