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personally assure president obama that he will fight corruption. that is going to be a major issue for the next several months. wolf? because a lot of u.s. officials are deeply worried about karzai right now. all right. barbara, thanks very much. let s get some background on hamid karzai. educated in part in indflorida, fluent in several languages. from 1992 to 1993 karzai served as the deputy foreign minister in the afghan government after the fall of the soviet union. later he briefly aligned himself with the taliban briefly, but he declined to become taliban s ambassador to the united nations. in 1993 his father was murdered in pakistan, allegedly by the taliban. two years later mr. karzai worked with the u.s. government to overthrow the taliban from power in afghanistan. shortly after he was chosen as the interim leader of afghanistan, and in december 2004 karzai was elected president of afghanistan. so how stable is the karzai

Hamid karzaiBarbara starrTo afghanistanForeign ministerSoviet unionUnited nationsInterim leaderDecember 2004