Community | April 07, 2010 | 1 comment

UN diplomat suggests Karzai enjoys getting high

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In perhaps the least diplomatic statement made thus far in 2010, a former UN representative to Afghanistan said that President Hamid Karzai is mentally unstable and enjoys opium.

The Guardian reports Peter Galbraith as saying the following on MSNBC:

"He's prone to tirades, he can be very emotional, act impulsively. In fact some of the palace insiders say that he has a certain fondness for some of Afghanistan's most profitable exports."

When asked whether he was saying Karzai had a substance abuse problem, Galbraith said there were "reports to that effect".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/07/hamid-karzai-galbraith-substance-abu...
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