I’m not sure how to take the assassination of Karzai’s brother. I recall the U.S. spent most of 2009-10 pressuring Karzai to get rid of the guy. To the point that we had a embarrassing confrontation with Karzai. He made some statements basically telling us to F off. We hastily backed off, kissed his ungrateful ass and made up. I don’t recall any public comments about the corrupt brother in at least a year.
Based on earlier U.S. statements the brother was extremely corrupt. To the point that we didn’t want to deal with him. That’s saying a lot in an area where our National checkbook buys a lot of mullah & tribe support. 
I do find a high ranking assassination troubling. It’s a reminder that our one leader in Afghanistan is highly vulnerable. One traitor bodyguard and we have nothing to work with over there. We’ve taken a lot of crap from Karzai because we need him badly.
Anyone read more on the situation?
Karzai was heavily involved with opium. One of his fellow drg lords may have capped him.
It’s one of those irregular verbs.
I support the fledgling democracy in Afghanistan;
You are an corrupt;
He’s been assassinated for dealing with the infidel.
Pretty much everyone wanted him dead. Rival warlords or drug lords, due to his profitable heroin trading, people who disapprove of the government (such as the so-called Taleban) due to his position and his brother, peasants in his area due to the usual human rights abuses, the American government for PR reasons and because he supposedly stole a shitload of their financial contributions to the new Afghan government. Supposedly he’s made at least two billion since 2001 from drugs and corruption, and lives as an Afghan aristocrat with the accompanying retinue of hired guns and kidnapped boy sex slaves.
So, a happy ending, I’d say.
Random bit of trivia: he used to own a popular Afghan restaurantin Chicago. It was apparently pretty good; I never made it there myself, but always wanted to.