Afghan lawmakers say President Hamid Karzai should not allow the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s enemies to have any place in the presidential palace.\n<\/p>\n
A number of parliament members said on Sunday that foreign-backed spies are operating in the office of the Afghan president.\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cSpecific networks of foreign spies are appointed on the orders of the president and they go to the extent of infiltrating into the cabinet which is really worrying,\u201d Tolonews quoted lawmaker Abdul Hanan Haqyoun as saying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On April 29, the US daily The New York Times<\/i> reported that American CIA spy agency had been bribing Afghan officials and warlords in the past decade with tens of millions of dollars in secret cash money in continuing efforts to win favors and maintain influence over internal affairs of the country.<\/p>\n
The report further claimed that most of the American bribe money distributed in Afghanistan by its spy agency are \u00c5\u201cpacked into suitcases, backpacks and\u2026 plastic shopping bags\u201d and dropped off \u00c5\u201cevery month or so\u201d at the offices of Karzai, highlighting the \u00c5\u201cvast scale\u201d of delivering \u00c5\u201coff-the-books cash\u201d payments that have \u00c5\u201ca far greater impact on everyday governing\u201d of the nation.\n<\/p>\n
The daily cited \u00c5\u201csome American officials\u201d as saying, \u00c5\u201cthe cash has fueled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s exit strategy from Afghanistan.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cThe biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan was the United States,\u201d the daily noted, quoting an unnamed American official.\n<\/p>\n
The United States and its allies entered the war in Afghanistan in October 2001 as part of Washington\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s so-called war on terror.\n<\/p>\n
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