Breakfast Links: July 12, 2011

— Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother of Hamid, shot and killed by a close family associate.

— AWK's ties to the CIA.

— AWK's ties to the heroin trade.

— The Karzai family's domination of economic rents from control of the Afghan government.

— "A perception that Ahmed Wali Karzai has concentrated power in the hands of his family's ethnic Pashtun Popalzai tribe has fuelled support for the insurgency."

— How to be an expert on Afghanistan.

— Italian debt troubles threaten rich country financial apocalypse.

— Consumer surplus from the internet.

— We don't want more inbound foreign capital.