George Alexopoulos - George Alexopoulos (@GPrime85)

Oh no, his departure is actually pretty standard for overthrown Third-World leaders.

When it happens in Africa, it's normal for the ousted president to flee with millions upon millions of dollars earned by funnelling the wealth of an entire nation into their own private pockets.

If Afghanistan wasn't currently in the spotlight, I doubt anyone would have made much of a note out of it.

It's just sort of accepted that that's what those sort of people do.

Nice job caricaturing Arabic as unreadable gobbledygook, Alex. Was the ten minutes of research required to translate that phrase into Arabic script just too much for you?