Afghanistan Gave CIA Money To Al Qaeda For Diplomat's Ransom

Afghanistan Gave CIA Money To Al Qaeda For Diplomat's Ransom: NYT:

The Times said Abdul Khaliq Farahi was the Afghan consul general in Peshawar, Pakistan, when he was kidnapped in 2008 and handed over to al Qaeda. He was released two years later after Afghanistan paid al Qaeda $5 million, a fifth of which was CIA money that came from an Afghan government fund that received monthly cash deliveries from the agency, the Times said.