entify investment targets, work with boards and build alliances with other investors, according to the newspaper. The firm invests in 10 to 12 public companies for an average of three to five years, usually taking stakes of between 5% and 15% and working closely with management and boards. The job will allow Myners, who previously was chairman of Gartmore Group, to put into practice his view that both companies and investors benefit when institutional shareholders are more involvmize night raids and airstrikes and clear the operations with his forces. "We have told the Americans and NATO forces several times that uncoordinated operations will result in the killing of innocent civilians and that such operations are inhumane, but still no one has listened," Karzai said Sunday, adding that his condemnation would be "the last warning to NATO forces, American forces, and American officials." Helmand borders Pakistan and is an insurgent bastion. The province's vast poppy fields are the Taliban's prime profit center. Afghan insurgents have stepped up a spring offensive across the country. On Saturday, a Taliban suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded compound in northern Afghanistan as top Afghan and international officials were leaving a meeting. The blast killed two senior Afghan police commanders and wounded a German general in command of coalition troops in the region. Two German soldiers and two other Afghans were also killed in the blast that came just weeks before a planned drawdown of U.S. troops begins this summer. The bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest inside the governor's complex in Takhar province, where high-ranking Afghan officials were meeting with members of the international coalition. Among the dead was Gen. Daud Daud, regional police commander in northern Afghanistan. Daud was a former deputy interior minister for counternarcotics and a former bodyguard of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic Tajik leader who commanded the Northern Alliance and died in an al-Qaida suicide bombing two days before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that provoked the U.S. invasion. Also killed in the Saturday blast were provincial police chief Gen. Shah Jahan Noori, a secretary to the governor and one of Daud's bodyguards, the health director said. Gen. Markus Kneip, the NATO force's commander for nine northern provinces, was among the wounded, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in Berlin. Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the Takhar province governor who was at the meeting and suffered burns to his head, hands and back, descri