abcnews.go.com - 11/3/2009
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A day after Abdullah withdrew from the race, Karzai named winner.
wired.com - 11/1/2009
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wired.com —
This week’s deadly insurgent attack on a UN
guesthouse in Kabul — along with the attack on...
the Serena Hotel — seemed to have one very specific goal: To disrupt Afghanistan’s upcoming presidential runoff election, which is ...
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Afghanistan’s Election Runoff: Disaster in the Making?
news.antiwar.com - 11/1/2009
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news.antiwar.com —
September was sort of a high water mark
for the war in Afghanistan, at least compared to...
other recent months. It was incredibly destructive, to be sure, but after the massive violence in August’s run-up to the election , it was the first month in ...
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Worst Month Ever for US in Afghanistan; 8 More Killed
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The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Note —
... "Off-year elections will test Democrats' influence" LINK
Politico’s Jim Vandehei and Alex Isenstadt: “Conservatives take aim at leaders, Charlie Crist, other races” LINK
AFGHANISTAN:
ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller: “After “Messy” Process, President Obama Congratulates Afghanistan’s “Legitimate” – If Not “Credible” --- President” LINK
ABC News’ Jim Sciutto and Devin Dwyer: “Karzai Wins Presidency as Afghan Runoff Is Cancelled” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov in Kabul and Zahid Hussain in Islamabad: ...
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Now That The Runoff’s On
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/23/2009 —
Now that Abdullah Abdullah and Hamid Karzai have agreed on terms for a runoff , it’s worth revisiting the fact that US policy really needs Karzai to win. Karzai is Pashto, from the country’s largest ethnic group, and even though ...
Plan B
mudvillegazette.com 11/4/2009 —
Al Jazeera : Hamid Karzai listened to a mixture of congratulations and straight talking down the telephone from President Obama on Monday just hours after Mr. Karzai was declared the winner of the Afghan elections by default. President Obama made clear what the United States expects.
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Karzai declared victor in Afghanistan
americablog.com 11/2/2009 — The lesson from the election in Afghanistan is that massive fraud pays off. Karzai was officially declared the winner today : Afghan election officials canceled a presidential runoff and proclaimed the reelection of President Hamid Karzai on Monday, a ...
Karzai accepts runoff in Afghan election
news.yahoo.com 10/20/2009 — KABUL A grim President Hamid Karzai bowed to intense U.S. pressure and agreed Tuesday to a runoff election Nov. 7, acknowledging he fell short of a majority after U.N.-backed auditors stripped him of nearly a third of his votes. With the fraud ...
Afghanistan Election Vote Runoff? Audit Reportedly Shows Karzai With 48 Percent
themoderatevoice.com 10/19/2009 — Are new tensions about to swirl around Afghanistan? At a time when President Barack Obama and his advisers are huddled in comprehensive reviews of the war and wht do do next, recent elections and the next phase of U.S. involvement, the New York Times reports that an audit of recent elections ...
Karzai bows to pressure for Afghanistan election runoff
guardian.co.uk 10/19/2009 — President accepts need for second round after fraud inquiry Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, will bow to international pressure today and concede that he did not win a clear majority in Afghanistan's bitterly contested election, and also accept ...
The CIA Is In Afghanistan
justoneminute.typepad.com 10/28/2009 — Here we go with another leak seemingly intended to undermine the notion that the US can succeed in Afghanistan: KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal...
Eight Years Later, We Still Don’t Get It in Afghanistan
commondreams.org 10/17/2009 — by Ted Rall Eight years. We’ve been in Afghanistan longer than any other war in American history. The party of the president who invaded Afghanistan has been repudiated at the polls. Yet we still haven’t altered the flawed strategy that allowed ...
Afghanistan Rejects UN Criticism of Karzai
voanews.com 28 days ago — Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry has rejected comments from the top U.N. official in the country warning President Hamid Karzai to combat corruption or risk losing international support. A Foreign Ministry statement issued Saturday says U.N. special ...
WH congratulates Karzai, wants reforms —
First Read 11/2/2009
From NBC's Athena Jones President Obama called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to congratulate him on being named the winner of that country's election, and urged him to work to improve governance and end corruption there.
Karzai was named ...
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