After the American-led invasion and the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghans gathered in Kabul for an emergency loya jirga to elect a transitional government.
Perhaps foreshadowing the problems that would haunt the country of the next decade, warlords – predominately from the Northern Alliance – who were not on guest list were allowed to enter the delegation. Human Rights Watch reported that they monitored the event and intimidated many of the delegates.
At the end of the conference, Hamid Karzai was sworn in as president and 14 ministers were appointed to head the transitional government.