Karzai’s Brother Threatened McClatchy Writer Reporting Afghan Drug Story

Posted by kultra on May 20, 2009

The ride to Kandahar airport was tense. The Afghan president’s brother had just yelled a litany of obscenities and said he was about to beat me.

Ahmed Wali Karzai is feared by many in southern Afghanistan, and being threatened by him, in his home, isn’t something to be taken lightly.