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is a long time. and i did expect to have to, at some point, leave this job. >> did they give you advance warning that your tour of duty would be over or did they suddenly just say it's over? >> they asked me to come back to afghanistan to join the ministry of foreign affairs and my tour of duty would be over september 22nd. >> they just told you that. let me read to you, karzai has made a series of hasty firings in the past few months. last week he snis ed a deputy attorney general who had been involved in corruption investigations of government officials. in june, karzai abruptly fired the interior minister hanif atmar and intelligence chief amrullah saleh. some intelligent officials are saying president karzai seems to be behaving somewhat bizarre right now and are surprised by what he is doing. >> i report to the ministry of foreign affairs. the authority of rule actually is in charge of appointment and removal of the ambassador is the