(26. Dezember 2007) President Hamid Karzai‘s spokesman, Humayun Hamidzada, said the two men – named in reports as a British senior UN official, Mervyn Patterson, and an Irish senior adviser to the European Union mission, Michael Semple – were „involved in some activities that were not their jobs“.

A spokeswoman for the EU‘s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, whose office employs Semple, said talks were continuing regarding his situation and an outcome was expected „in a day or so at the maximum“