Describes food options regarding things that make his stomach sick, a bomb explosion that shook the hotel and killed lots of people, and the assassination attempt on Karzai. Includes recordings he made of BBC coverage of the bombing and assassination attempt. He offers analysis that the Karzai government is ineffective; that neighboring countries want an unstable, war-torn Afghanistan; how the attempt will not be answered by the administration; and comparing the attempt to the start of the Jihad against the Soviets and as the start of a new movement of regrouped Taliban.