1.   A U.S. congressional delegation met in Rome on Sunday with the exiled king to discuss efforts to build a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan.

2.   Conference chairman Gailani is close to the exiled king and has been pegged by some as a possible future prime minister.

3.   He essentially dismissed Western hopes that the exiled king, Mohammad Zahir, could return to unite diverse ethnic groups.

4.   He is a supporter and relative of the exiled former king, Mohammad Zaher Shah, whom many of the Pashtuns support.

5.   He is a supporter and relative of the exiled former king, Mohammad Zaher Shah, whom many Pashtuns support.

6.   Mix a millionaire Chicago options trader with a former U.S. national security adviser and the exiled king of Afghanistan, and a lobbying force emerges.

7.   The exiled king is a Durrani Pashtun, like the Taliban leaders.

8.   The first was the now exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, who in the end stopped short of looking at the cloak.

9.   There are also snapshots of Gouttierre with Zahir Shah, the exiled Afghan king, and of the famed Buddha statue the Taliban destroyed.

10.   This week security was reinforced because of a nationwide strike, which took place on Wednesday, and the departure of the exiled king of Afghanistan on Thursday.