Here's how the Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother was killed.

The New York Times says he was shot dead today by a family bodyguard, according to Karzai family friends who were nearby.

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the provincial council chairman for Kandahar Province '" the most powerful person in the province if not all southern Afghanistan '" was killed by Sardar Mohammed, a former bodyguard of his older brother Qayyoum.

The bodyguard was killed almost immediately, according to people close to Ahmed Wali Karzai, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject.