Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai's
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
brother, wounding two Afghan troops, the government said.
The governor of Helmand province, Gulab Mangal, and the provincial chief of Afghan intelligence beat feet unhurt, said an official statement, and the group attended the funeral of Ahmed Wali Karzai in neighbouring Kandahar province.
Mangal and the Helmand chief of the National Directorate of Security intelligence agency were travelling together when the bomb went
kaboom!in the neighbouring province of Kandahar, where Wali Karzai was killed on Tuesday.
The bomb exploded by remote-control in the Maiwand district, wounding two soldiers attached to the NDS detached unit, the governor's office said.
Cheaply made roadside kabooms are the weapon of choice for the Taliban, fighting a nearly 10-year insurgency against Afghan and foreign forces that has been largely focused in the southern heartlands of the country.
President Hamid Karzai buried his younger half-brother in a family cemetery in the southern suburbs of Kandahar city, after the regional powerbroker was rubbed out a day earlier by a guest in his home.