This is a coup killing of a drug kingpin. There is dearly little that can be done when a country has become this corrupt.

How different is Aghanistan from the days in the USA of Al Capone?  When corruption is the law of the land this is the result.

When these issues present themselves in Afghanistan I remembered the helicopter pilot that killed our service men.  How much of that was in response to a pending mission to the home of bin Laden?  Was it a result of diseased poppy fields?  There is just no understanding what is going to happen next in a country where they live by the gun.

Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Hamid Karzai, has been shot dead in Afghanistan. Photograph: Humayoun Shiab/EPA

..."Ahmed Wali Karzai (click title to entry - thank you) was killed at about 11.30am. He was killed by his bodyguard inside his house," said General Abdul Razaq. Razaq said an investigation into the assassination was under way....


Evidently, President Karzai's brother was giving information to NATO operations regarding troubled areas of the country when they refused to be under the power of Ahmed Wali Karzai.  This was going to happen sooner or later.  My guess is that villages falling out of favor with Ahmed saw the subsequent attacks as revenge for their disobedience.  There is too much 'mischief' in the country to begin to heal Afghanistan.  The NATO operations should not have accepted information from Ahmed.  They need to have their own intelligence and recon.  


We don't belong in Afghanistan.  


Now that Osama bin Laden has been buried as sea, we will never belong there again.