Inside Karzai's Kickback Scheme -- New Republic
President Karzai’s brazen admission to accepting cash from Iran through his Chief of Staff Umar Daudzai comes as no surprise to government insiders. It’s utterly of a piece with the routine and pervasive corruption that has become a signature of the Karzai administration. A former Afghan cabinet minister wrote me that Daudzai—Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Iran from 2005 to 2007—is said to receive $3.5 million every month from the Islamic Republic. Further, he claims that both Daudzai and Minister of Education Wardak “used some of that money for Karzai's campaign and bribing a number of parliamentarians.”
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My Comment: This has always been the case for Afghanistan .... a cultural aspect that the U.S. has figured out (probably) only now. But it is still discouraging when one reads stories like the following, or stories like this one.
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