Word: brothers
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...Devender Singh, 26, an unemployed drug addict whose father was killed before his eyes in 1984, says his brother was murdered in the colony a couple years ago and that it's likely he'll meet the same fate. "We're all thieves and addicts here," he says. "When you get no work, what else will you do?" The lawless attitude of the young people is an echo, residents say, of India's broken justice system. The young people saw no punishment for the crimes committed against their families, so they see no justice for the crimes they'll commit...
...claim that Ahmed Wali Karzai has been on the payroll of the CIA for the past eight years, as reported in the New York Times on Tuesday, won't come as a surprise to most Afghans, who have long considered his brother, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, to be an American puppet. The revamped allegations that Karzai frère is deeply involved in Afghanistan's annual $4 billion drug industry isn't much of a shocker either - on the streets of Kabul and Kandahar, the name Wali has long been synonymous with someone who can get away with a crime...
...only talking to "good" guys to get information about al-Qaeda, think again - men with clean hands rarely truck with those without.) But if the Times' charges are true, the revelations that Wali Karzai is a major drug trafficker who has been protected not just by his brother, but also by CIA operatives establish a chain of causality between the efforts of U.S. intelligence to obtain information and influence and drug monies that pay for an insurgency that has taken 53 American lives this month - the highest death toll ever for Americans in Afghanistan. Karzai denied both allegations, telling...
...read memoirs? I have read some. I don't read a lot of memoirs. I'm very narrow in all my interests. I am cut from the same cloth as my older, Aspergian brother and probably Aspergian father. If I could, I would eat the same exact thing every day. It would be just protein bars and nothing else, no deviation ever. (See pictures of crazy Christmas traditions...
...time were indirectly to blame for the attack. "Underpinning our request for this inquiry is our belief that unless we understand and acknowledge the complicated series of events that led to the decision to put a bomb on Flight 103, no lessons will be learned," Pamela Dix, whose brother Peter died in the bombing, wrote in a commentary in the Guardian newspaper on Monday. (Read "Lockerbie Bomber Returns to Cheers in Libya...