US secrets for sale outside Bagram airbase

Espionage is carried out in many strange places, but none as strange as this.

It is being reported that US secrets are for sale in an Afghan bazaar, after apparently being stolen from a nearby US military base.

One of the most potentially damaging files, which was bought unwittingly by an Afghan journalist, names senior Afghan ministers whom US intelligence agencies believe to be drug smugglers. Described as "Tier One Warlords", they include Marshal Mohammad Fahim, former defence minister and now a member of the upper house of the Afghan parliament; General Rashid Dostum, Chief of Staff of the army; and General Mohammad Daoud,presently the Interior Minister for Counter-Narcotics. The Interior Ministry has refused to comment.

And some of the secrets reveal the US's insistence on interferring, even with country's that they have supposedly "liberated."

Another file includes a list of 12 senior provincial officials the US wants removed from office.

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