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A top Afghan official at the center of a corruption scandal in Afghanistan is reportedly on the payroll of the CIA. The official, Mohammed Zia Salehi, was arrested on bribery charges last month but set free after Afghan President Hamid Karzai intervened. According to the New York Times, Salehi has received CIA payments for many years of unspecified work. The payments have continued despite the Obama administration’s stated commitment to root out corruption in the Afghan government. A US official defended the CIA’s ties to Salehi, saying, "If we decide…we’ll never deal with anyone in Afghanistan who might…put his hand in the till, we can all come home right now. If you want intelligence in a war zone, you’re not going to get it from Mother Teresa or Mary Poppins.":five:
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They really should sign her up. She has the inside info on banking business and contacts in the navy, she can travel any where in the world with out running up huge travel expenses, can smuggle any object no matter how large with out detection through any border and also has connections with politically ambitious women. As a nursery maid she has an excellent cover certainly less suspicious than 'Aid Worker' or 'Foreign Correspondent'.
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Supercalibrefrangibleballisticexpatriotneurosis.
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
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Where would we be with CD's wit? Someone quick send him whatever it is that makes him tick.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"
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Charles Drago Wrote:Supercalibrefrangibleballisticexpatriotneurosis.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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Ed Jewett Wrote:Where would we be with CD's wit? Someone quick send him whatever it is that makes him tick.
Charlize Theron; mint original pressings of every Blue Note, Prestige, and Riverside Lp; signed, fine firsts of the Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Fleming canons; a cellar full of First Growths.
I'll settle for the truth.
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
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It's a good thing you will settle for the truth; Charlize Theron just left asking for your whereabouts and I told her I was clueless.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"
