Per the Austin American Statesman, in the early fall of the year 2012, Mohammed al-Madadi, a diplomat from Qatar, was on a flight bound for Denver when decided he wanted to have a smoke right away, no time to wait for landing. Dost told the woman he was an Afghan diplomat and demanded that she move and, when she did not, he rammed her with his vehicle, backing the 1978 Lincoln - a huge vehicle, in his case with diplomatic plates - into Curry.Ī Qatari diplomat traveling on a commercial flight in the United States showed himself to be a model of selfishness, immaturity, and smugness when he broke multiple laws in a mere matter of minutes, thumbed his proverbial nose at authorities and America in general, and then departed the country scot-free thanks to his diplomatic status.

While searching for a parking spot in a neighborhood in Queens, Dost came across a woman, 42-year-old Margaret Curry, standing in an open spot into which she was directing her boyfriend to park. At the time of the incident, which took place in July of the year 1987, per UPI, Dost held another objectively important role: that of helping negotiate an end to the then-ongoing Afghan civil war, which had been exacerbated, rather than ended, by a Soviet invasion of the nation in 1979, per the State Department.

Thus it was that he committed an attack that would have landed a 'regular' person in jail for a long time, yet, being a diplomat, Dost went unpunished. At one point in his career, Shah Mohammad Dost was the foreign minister of Afghanistan, a cabinet-level position of great import and influence, and evidently that sense of importance more than went to this man's head.

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