1.   The plot allegedly included efforts to disrupt the loya jirga, or grand assembly that will choose the next government in two months.

2.   It would then take a few months to have a grand consultative assembly which would lay the constitutional basis for a new stable government.

3.   Like several other peace plans, the assembly wants to establish a traditional Afghan grand assembly, or loya jirga, that would run the country.

4.   HRW representatives toured five southern provinces, gathering information about the process of loya jirga, or grand assembly, and general security conditions in the country.

5.   Interim leader Hamid Karzai was elected president of Afghanistan late Thursday by the Loya Jirga grand assembly.

6.   A grand Islamic assembly then elected Burhanuddin Rabbani president and Mujaddedi went back to Peshawar.

7.   A two-year transitional government, to lead the country until democratic elections, will be picked by a traditional grand assembly in Kabul next week.

8.   Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Tuesday postponed announcing to the Loya Jirga grand assembly his list of names for key cabinet posts in the transitional administration.

9.   Afghanistan is to hold a Loya Jirga, or traditional Afghan grand assembly, to select a new government to take over from the current interim administration in June.

10.   Burhannudin Rabbani, president of tue to be selected by an Afghan grand assembly in June.