Ahmed Wali Karzai

Afghan Politician

Male

Born 1961

Hometown Karz

Died Jul 12, 2011

Death Place Kandahar

Nationality Afghan

Ahmed Wali Karzai was a prominent politician in Afghanistan and the younger paternal half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and son of Abdul Ahad Karzai. As an elder of the Popalzai Pashtun tribe, he was elected to the Kandahar Provincial Council… Read More

Family

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Ahmed Wali Karzai

d.2011

parents

Abdul Ahad Karzai
Father, d.1999

siblings

Hamid Karzai
Brother, Age 55

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Seamus Mc Kiernan: The Bradley Manning Case And Our Decade Of Denial
Huffington Post - Dec 02, 2012

For nearly three years, Bradley Manning, the 24-year-old army private accused of leaking classified documents, has been denied the right to speak in public. He got his chance this week in a Fort Meade, Md. courtroom, but the long denial reminded me of a short story called "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a fictional tale about villagers who enjoy total happiness and bliss as long as they keep quiet about a boy who's locked up in a dark, underground ce...
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As Foreigners Go, Afghan City Is Feeling Abandoned
Fox News - Nov 03, 2012

By switching from studying business management to training as a nurse, 19-year-old Anita Taraky has placed a bet on the future of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar — that once foreign troops are gone, private-sector jobs will be fewer but nursing will always be in demand. Besides, if the Taliban militants recapture the southern Afghan city that was their movement's birthplace and from which they were expelled by U.S.-led forces 11 years ago, nursing will likely be one of ...
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It’s Groundhog Day In Afghanistan
Cato @ Liberty - Apr 18, 2012

By Malou Innocent The war in Afghanistan tragically feels like the movie Groundhog Day: reliving and retelling the same stories repeatedly, but with the situation worse than it was the previous time. The United States is perpetually stuck in a repetitive series of setbacks and scandals that damage the mission. It cannot escape the shadow that ruinous events cast over the prospect of defeating the Taliban. Today, the Los Angeles Times published photos of U.S. soldiers posing with the man...
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Afghan Leaders Fear Execution In Taliban Birthplace Pakistan Daily Times
Google News - Jul 31, 2011

“After the assassination of Ahmed Karzai and other officials, I fear for my life,” said Noor ul Aziz, an ex-Taliban official who defected to the government side in January and now heads Kandahar's religious affairs department
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1961 Birth Karzai was born in 1961 in the village of Karz, located in the Dand district of Kandahar in Afghanistan. … Read More

FORTIES

2001 40 Years Old He came to political prominence in Afghanistan following the US occupation of the country in 2001, where he was a key ally of the US military in the country's south.

2005 44 Years Old 1 More Event

… As an elder of the Popalzai Pashtun tribe, he was elected to the Kandahar Provincial Council in 2005 and served as its chairman. … Read More

2006 45 Years Old In meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, including a 2006 session with former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neumann, the CIA's station chief and their British counterparts, American officials talked about the rumors in hopes that the president might move his brother out of the country, said several people who took part in or were briefed on the talks. "We thought the concern expressed to Karzai might be enough to get him out of there," one official said. … Read More

2008 47 Years Old Karzai survived a number of assassination attempts by Taliban militants and at least two attacks against his office in Kandahar: one in November 2008 and the other in April 2009. … Read More

2009 48 Years Old 2 More Events

A June 2009 U.S. embassy cable alleged that much of the actual business of running the Afghan city of Kandahar "takes place out of public sight, where Ahmed Wali Karzai operates, parallel to formal government structures, through a network of political clans that use state institutions to protect and enable licit and illicit enterprises." … Read More

FIFTIES

2011 50 Years Old 2 More Events

He was shot and killed by one of his bodyguards on July 12, 2011.

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