Khalilzad's plans to take over Afghanistan

A little bit more on Zalmay Khalilzad's "unauthorized contacts" with the Pakistanis, but I found this just as interesting.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials in Kabul learned that Khalilzad had put together an informal fundraising and advisory network of wealthy, educated Afghans who had returned home from the United States, Australia, Britain and elsewhere. They met for lunch every Thursday at the Serena Hotel in Kabul to discuss their disdain for Karzai and to plan the nascent Khalilzad presidential campaign.

That would be more than "a rumor" he wants the job, no?