Mullah Omar’s Eid message. A comment about Afghanistan under the Karzai regime:

Omar criticizes the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and “the rampant corruption in the surrogate Kabul administration — the embezzlement, drug trafficking, the existence of mafia networks, the tyranny and high-handedness of the warlords, and spread and increase of the centers of obscenity.”

Earlier, I investigated a report about the presence of prostitutes in Afghanistan, and discovered an NGO worker’s post online describing his own use of Chinese prostitutes in Kabul. I wrote:

The Chinese women would most likely be trafficked, ie, victims of international sex trafficking facilitated by organized crime in Afghanistan, and I suspect that is the most likely answer to your question. The Afghan police may engage in periodic vice sweeps and deport who they find, but I’m sure the attraction of wealthy foreigners and paid Afghan lackeys draws them back in.

The prostitution angle of the embassy scandal should draw attention to the growth of organized crime in Afghanistan, funded and enabled by the presence of highly paid mercenaries.

No doubt the overpaid mercenaries – mostly single men – provide a lucrative market for what criminals can offer: drugs, alcohol and sex.

So perhaps Mullah Omar has a point.