The Man who ran against Karzai.

During the Taliban era, Abdullah was one of the few English-speaking people in the so-called Northern Alliance, the anti-Taliban movement headed by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani. The Northern Alliance was Afghanistan's internationally recognized government at that time, and Abdullah served as the country's official foreign minister.

I looked once then twice when it hit me that Abdullah was the new leader of The Northern Alliance a few years back. They gave no quarter to the Taliban by the way. Meanwhile Karzai ( tarnished like Rocketeer said he would be ) is inviting all Afghan's ( including The Taliban ) to participate in an inclusion called : BS.