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Karzai’s Paranoid World

As Afghanistan’s president is inaugurated for his second term, author Christina Lamb, his former neighbor, on his transformation from an affable bon vivant to a paranoid shut-in.

Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb
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Christina Lamb

Christina Lamb

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