article_snippet: free consul general Abdul Khaliq Farahi was the Afghan consul general in Peshawar, Pakistan, when free consul general Abdul Khaliq Farahi was kidnapped in 2008 and handed over to Al Qaeda.
article_snippet: free consul general Abdul Khaliq Farahi was released two years later after Afghanistan paid the terrorist group a $5million ransom, a fifth of which was from the CIA, the New York Times reported.
article_snippet: The the CIA money Al Qaeda got was part of a $5million ransom to free consul general Abdul Khaliq Farahi (above)
highlights_snippet: Money was part of $5M ransom to free consul general Abdul Khaliq Farahi .
  
highlights_snippet: free consul general Abdul Khaliq Farahi was kidnapped in 2008 and released two years later after payment .
  