Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... 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...
after officials foiled an alleged liquidation plot, denying that a bodyguard under arrest ever had free access to the palace.
The intelligence service announced this week that one of Karzai's personal bodyguards and two university lectures were among six people under arrest over an alleged al Qaeda plot to kill Karzai hatched in Pakistain.
The reports appeared to underline the president's vulnerability after losing a series of key allies, including peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
-- assassinated last month -- and his younger brother who was murdered in July.
But the presidency said the guard, Muhibullah Ahmadi, was assigned only to the "outside gates of the presidential palace" where he was not authorised to act independently and was not allowed to enter the presidential compound.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the six were recruited to al Qaeda by a religious teacher at Kabul Medical University.
It claimed they were "very close" to launching their attack, having found a way inside the palace and recruiting one of president's bodyguards.
The NDS said the bodyguard, Ahmadi, came from Karzai's village -- Karz in the southern province of Kandahar.
The president survived an liquidation attempt in 2008 at a military parade and now rarely leaves the heavily fortified presidential palace.
Karzai was in India when the alleged plot was revealed, where he signed a new strategic partnership deal that raised concerns within Pakistain about being increasingly isolated in Afghanistan.
The NDS says Rabbani was killed by a Pak and that his murder was also planned in Pakistain.