- Hamid Karzai’s brother, a prominent opium dealer (!), has been receiving CIA paychecks for eight years. He will now be fired and replaced by a teenager and an iPhone app. Recession! [New York Times]
- A car bomb killed 86 people in Peshawar a couple hours after Hillary Clinton left Peshawar. [AP]
- At least six UN-related people died in a bombing in Kabul. Predictably, the Taliban has claimed responsibility, for such is their schtick. [Washington Post]
- Those pilots who appeared to have totally forgotten to land the plane for an entire hour after they were supposed to have done so have lost their licenses. [CNN]
- “Consumer confidence”—evidently an actual metric and not something people just say—is up for the first time since 2007. [Reuters]
- It’s looking like Iran might outsource its uranium enrichment needs, which is exactly what Obama wanted. [Reuters]
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