Former warlord launches bid to succeed Karzai

Friday, February 7, 2014

KABUL, Afghanistan -- He has been called a mentor to accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the man who welcomed Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan in the 1990s. He was accused of war crimes and atrocities, and has a terror group named after him in the Philippines.

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