Hamed Karzai

[Slave to the Grave 26]

Hamid Karzai has just been sworn in as the new Afghan president. He's promised to crack down on what remains of the Taleban and the opium boom in Afghanistan.

 

He's already survived one assassination attempt. Actually getting to 2005 could be a challenge.

[Tuber Mirum 126]

I'm surprised nobody had a go at Rummy and Cheney while they were there.

I know I would like as not have lobbed a rotten cabbage or two their way if I had been in Afghanistan yesterday. Which I wasn't.

[Slave to the Grave 26]

Why not a tomato? not a cabbage, not a potato.

[Tuber Mirum 126]

Why not a tomato? not a cabbage, not a potato.

If I flung a potato at Karzai and he were to catch it and stick it down his underpants, that could mean the beginning of a new dick-tatership in Afghanistan.

[mattd007 1]

are you saying that mr karzai would have relations with a veggie?

[Slave to the Grave 26]

I am sure you can do many things with a potato down your trousers, but not a leek.

[football_fan 42]

Hamid Karzai has just been sworn in as the new Afghan president. He's promised to crack down on what remains of the Taleban and the opium boom in Afghanistan.

 

He's already survived one assassination attempt. Actually getting to 2005 could be a challenge.

He is a walking target and is literally being kept alive by his US bodyguards 24/7. I would not be surprised if he does not make it through 2005.

[Slave to the Grave 26]

literally being kept alive by his US bodyguards 24/7.

As if things weren't bad enough already.

[Slave to the Grave 26]

The ideal Birthday present for Mr Karzai?

[football_fan 42]

He could also do with one of these as his personal vehicle

 

[Guest Mister]

The supreme beggar of Afghanistan.

[Guest AnotherGuest]

THIS is what he may want...

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

THIS is what he may want...

I quite fancy one of those suits. Make the rush hour crush on the tube much more bearable.

[Guest Guest]

The supreme beggar of Afghanistan.

true

[maryportfuncity 10,684]

Despite the obvious threats to his health we may have underestimated the man. He seems to have a good balancing act of saying the right things for the West to hear and not upsetting every dangerous lunatic at home. In other words a lot of people who might be tempted to kill him realise the alternatives are worse and the consequences of offing him could be putting themselves in the firing line.

 

I'll tempt fate here and say he'll see 2006.

[Canadian Paul 97]

Looks like a different troubled leader should have been picked.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

I wonder if Ham would be bothered if I didn't attend his annual end of the year luncheon.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,366]

Hamid Karzai has escaped unhurt after the Taliban fired rockets at a meeting he was addressing. He won't die of old age.

 

Hopefully he's got more security than Afghanistan's last foreign puppet of a ruler, Mohammad Najibullah, the Taliban showed him no mercy when they caught up with him.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

Looks like a different troubled leader should have been picked.

and now he has been----feeling better?

[Guest Guest]

I think he survives because he dazzles the afgans and the world with those sissy suits. He dresses like a flaming gay sweetheart. As long as he keeps wearing those cloths, they will let him live.

[maryportfuncity 10,684]

He keeps going by avoiding trips to warlord central and because all the factions who hate each other dread someone worse getting his job, meaning his only real concerns are the fanatics who are in it mainly for the bloodshed. As a rule his bodyguards and some good luck have kept them at bay, so far.

[Cowboy Ronnie 78]

Because it was the clumsy Taliban it doesn't sound like this was a very good assassination attempt, but still....

 

Hamid scenes of chaos

[Guest Nick]

Just survived a semi-assasination attempt, so close yet so far

[Guest Guest_disco_*]

ole Hamid had some serious looks on his face after this last one.

[Vaagheid 141]

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