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Ibrahim Spinzada is a politician in Afghanistan who has been appointed to several government positions by

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Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...

. In 2004 the ''

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'' described Spinzada as Karzai's brother-in-law. The ''

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'' also called him ''"a Karzai brother-in-law"'', when it reported he was the first deputy adviser on Afghanistan's National Security Council in 2010. In June 2010, Spinzada was appointed interim director of National Directorate of Security (NDS). In March 2012 he traveled to

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in Cuba to negotiate with the five remaining Taliban leaders held there. ''

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'' described him as an associate of Mohammed Ali Salehi, an individual they reported facilitated the illegal transfer of funds from Afghanistan.

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