Asadullah Khalid
by Anthony C Heaford --- @mancunianquiet on twitter --- 13 February 2025
Afghan provincial governor (2001-08), spy chief (2012-13), and minister of defence (2018-21) Asadullah Khalid is the very worst of what NATO tried to impose on Afghanistan. That’s along with men like Rashid Dostum (a brutal war lord who kidnapped and raped his political opponents and their children) and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (9/11 accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s employer, trainer & mentor), both of whom Khalid is pictured with below. Richard Colvin and Chris Alexander, two senior Canadian diplomats who deployed to Afghanistan, have respectively testified that Khalid was ‘known to personally torture people’ in a ‘dungeon under his guest house’, and accused him of ordering the murder of five United Nation’s workers in order to protect his own extensive opium empire. And so the third picture showing Khalid at the 2020 Munich Security Conference along with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo & Defense Secretary Mark Esper should beggar belief, but was not challenged by anyone, except myself it seems. At my insistence, British police reported the alleged UN worker murdering drug lord’s presence in Europe to Interpol, but no action was taken. Khalid was protected by the old ‘rules-based-order’ that is currently (February 2025) being torn down.
It'd be like a foreign occupying army making the Kray twin gangsters Mayors of London, or Al Capone head of the Internal Revenue Service in America – both unimaginable situations, but still fair equivalents of what NATO was doing in Afghanistan. It’s no wonder frontline soldiers couldn’t win ‘hearts and minds’ when their political bosses were imposing brutal war lords (Dostum), murderous drug lords (Khalid) and international terrorist masterminds (Sayyaf) on the Afghan government in Kabul and the international community in Munich. But there's no doubting Khalid was a savvy player, as the photos below illustrate. Whether that was him receiving attack helicopters* from India, being endorsed by US and European government ministers and Gulf princes, or, my favourite, being smart enough to buy himself a Commonwealth of Dominica passport in 2017!
*Circa 2020, while Khalid was Minister of Defence, Afghan counter narcotic police who were about to intercept a drug shipment were struck and killed by an airstrike. As the Taliban didn't have an air force and it was unlikely to have been a NATO operation, that leaves Khalid as the prime suspect.
What's perhaps most significant about Khalid's 2018 appointment as Minister of Defence is at the time there appeared to be open political warfare between the Military Industrial Complex / Deep State / Rules Based Order and President Trump. Trump unilaterally declared an end to the US mission in Syria and announced the withdrawal of half (7000) of the US troops in Afghanistan. Khalid's appointment appears to have been Trump's enemies attempt to escalate the war in Afghanistan and continue the occupation. Thank Trump that they failed.
And so where is Asadullah Khalid today? Sunning it up in Dominica maybe? Living in his $5-million mansion in Dubai? Perhaps he's still active in Afghanistan arming the Deep State's proxy Daesh or even attending the Munich Security Conference 2025. Who knows? Seriously, does anyone know where this UN worker murdering drug lord is today?
It wouldn't surprise me if he was now an arms dealing MI6 asset occasionally based in London. That's given that in 2012 British 'Minister Without Portfolio' Sayeeda Warsi endorsed handing over Afghan prisoners to Asadullah Khalid despite multiple warnings about torture from Canadian diplomats. That decision was overturned by the High Court in London, but incredibly that ruling was then appealed by British Minister of Defence Philip Hammond. Pictured below, along with Khalid's twitter profile, are my efforts to have Khalid questioned by Interpol during his February 2020 appearance in Munich. Chris Alexander, despite being the origin of the most serious allegations against Khalid, appears to have lost interest. Alexander remains an active proponent for NATO, continued war against Russia, but not Justice for the UN workers - four Nepelese security guards and their Afghan driver - that he said Khalid murdered.