An Assassination in Kandahar - Elise Jordan

For a period, AWK actually thought he might be exiled from Afghanistan. U.S. officials debated putting him on a list of wanted insurgents. The Americans proposed sending him to London as an ambassador — a sign that the International Security Forces in Afghanistan headquarters fundamentally misunderstood the man. - An Assassination in Kandahar - Elise Jordan - National Review Online
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