telegraph.co.uk - 28 days ago
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British and American officials congratulate Karzai after second round of Afghan election is cancelled.
news.bbc.co.uk - 29 days ago
mudvillegazette.com - 26 days ago
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mudvillegazette.com —
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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politicolnews.com - 10/28/2009
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politicolnews.com —
October 28, 2009 2:33 p.m. News Bulletin News
from the US military obtained by network news organizations...
show that the leader of Afghanistan President Karzai and his brother have now been linked to the lucrative opium drug trade of that country. The leaked documents show that Ahmed Wali Karzai ...
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Karzai Brothers Linked to Drug Trade-US Military Report
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'Twas Brillig in Bananastan
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Posted by Jeff Huber Who’s the bigger fraud: Hamid Karzai or the phalanx of western toads who are hailing him as the “legitimate” president of Afghanistan? To review the bidding: Karzai appointed a gang of crooks as election officials who threw the original election in his direction. UN election monitors tossed out a million or so votes, so Karzai didn’t have a majority, and a runoff election was required. Karzai at first refused to face a runoff, but John Kerry supposedly talked him into accepting one. Karzai’s main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, demanded a change in electoral ...
‘Twas Brillig in Bananastan
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Who’s the bigger fraud: Hamid Karzai, or the phalanx of Western toads who are hailing him as the "legitimate" president of Afghanistan? To review the bidding: Karzai appointed a gang of crooks as election officials who threw the original election to his corner. UN election monitors tossed out a million or so votes, so Karzai didn’t have a majority, and a runoff election was required. Karzai at first refused to face a runoff, but John Kerry supposedly talked him into accepting one. Karzai’s main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, demanded a change in electoral officials, saying ...
Blazing Afghanistan
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... was required. Karzai didn’t want to face a runoff, but John Kerry and other U.S. officials talked him into accepting it. Karzai’s opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, demanded that the crooked Karzai change the crooked election officials before the runoff and Karzai refused. So Abdullah refused to participate in the runoff and Karzai’s handpicked election officials cancelled the runoff and declared Karzai the winner. The U.S. and other western powers swarmed to decree Karzai Afghanistan’s “ legitimate ” president. U.S. President ...
Blazing Afghanistan
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... was required. Karzai didn’t want to face a runoff, but John Kerry and other U.S. officials talked him into accepting it. Karzai’s opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, demanded that the crooked Karzai change the crooked election officials before the runoff, and Karzai refused. So Abdullah refused to participate in the runoff, and Karzai’s handpicked election officials canceled the runoff and declared Karzai the winner. The U.S. and other Western powers swarmed to decree Karzai Afghanistan’s " legitimate " president. U.S. President ...
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