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Hillary Clinton: Afghanistan vote legitimate even if Abdullah boycotts
telegraph.co.uk - 22 days ago
Hillary Clinton: Afghanistan vote legitimate even if Abdullah boycotts
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Hillary Clinton the US Secretary of State has said the Afghan elections would be legitimate even if Abdullah Abdullah boycotted the runoff poll leaving President Hamid Karzai unopposed.
Abdullah pulls out of Afghan vote
news.bbc.co.uk - 22 days ago
Abdullah pulls out of Afghan vote
— news.bbc.co.uk — President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced in Kabul that he is withdrawing from the poll."I will not participate in the election," Dr Abdullah told supporters, saying his demands for a ensuring ... (more) Abdullah pulls out of Afghan vote

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mudvillegazette.com - 28 days ago
Abdullah Abdullah
— mudvillegazette.com — On CNN (video below). Would have made for interesting television to hear him answer questions on his fraudulent votes in the Afghan elections, but that's not the message the Obama administration wants Americans receiving just now. We'll have to settle for Abdullah explaining his opponent's ... (more) Abdullah Abdullah

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Abdullah Abduallah pulls out - should we?
mudvillegazette.com - 21 days ago
Abdullah Abduallah pulls out - should we?
— mudvillegazette.com — Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai's main rival for office of President of Afghanistan, has withdrawn from the scheduled Novemvber 7 runoff election there, saying his demands for ensuring a fraud-free election had not been met. However, he stopped short of calling for his supporters to boycott the ... (more) Abdullah Abduallah pulls out - should we?

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Left I on the News:  What's up at the State Department?

Theo Spark:  The Sunday Best..........

Antiwar.com Original:  ‘Twas Brillig in Bananastan

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What's up at the State Department?
Left I on the News — ... First, her observations on the likelihood of one of the two candidates in the upcoming Afghanistan runoff election withdrawing: ...

The Sunday Best..........
Theo Spark — ... in NY-23: GOP House Leaders Endorse Doug Hoffman! High street banks to be broken up Iraq war hero now working in call centre speaks of anger at government Britain pays child benefit for more than 50,000 children living abroad Lockerbie bomber defies doctors' prediction of death Eighth severed foot washes up on Canada's Pacific coast Three British soldiers shot in the Falkland Islands Hillary Clinton: Afghanistan vote legitimate even if Abdullah boycotts Somali pirates argue ...

‘Twas Brillig in Bananastan
Antiwar.com Original — ... that with the same people in charge, the runoff would be as crooked as the original election. Karzai refused to change the officials. Abdullah refused to participate in the runoff election. Karzai’s handpicked officials canceled the runoff election. Now Karzai is the "legitimate" president of Afghanistan. Now you know why I use the term "Bananastan" to describe Afghanistan and Pakistan. They’re the Central Asian versions of a Banana Republic. Our inexcusable Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said the runoff would be legitimate even if Abdullah boycotted it. Now it’s ...

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FBI: Radical Islamist Group Ruled by Inmate in "Supermax" Jail
weeklystandard.com 23 days ago — From the FBI press release on last night’s Dearborn, MI raid-turned-shootout that left radical Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, aka Christopher Thomas dead: Abdullah was the leader of part of a group that calls themselves Ummah (“the brotherhood”), a ...
Round two (part two)
mudvillegazette.com 22 days ago — ( Part one here ) ***** As the scheduled November 7 second round election date draws near, last minute efforts to replace the Karzai government in Afghanistan are moving into high gear. From London : Dr Abdullah Abdullah is meeting his main allies in Kabul today and tomorrow to ...
What's up up with Abdullah Abdullah?
ricks.foreignpolicy.com 20 days ago — As predicted (at the end of the post) in this blog on Friday, old Abdullah Abdullah is threatening to pull out of the Afghan run-up. Here is a comment from my friend Mac McCallister, who has spent a lot of time on the ground in dangerous places ...
ThinkFast: November 2, 2009
thinkprogress.org 20 days ago — Afghan officials cancelled the country’s run-off presidential election set to take place this Saturday after challenger Abdullah Abdullah announced his withdrawal from the race. The officials declared President Hamid Karzai the winner. An ...
When Exactly Did Afghanistan Become 'Settled Enough'? -- By: Seth Leibsohn
corner.nationalreview.com 20 days ago — Abdullah Abdullah has decided he will not face Hamid Karzai in a reelection re-vote this week because, by his lights, it will be as corrupt an election as took place this summer. This morning, the New York Times reports that: “Advisers to President ...
Abdullah Out
tnr.com 20 days ago — I'm not sure how to assess Abdullah Abdullah's exit from the Afghan runoff election, which renders Hamid Karzai the unchallenged Afghan president. A runoff election certainly did promise to be tainted by the same fraud we saw last time around--quite ...
What’s Next in Afghanistan?
outsidethebeltway.com 19 days ago — President Karzai narrowly won a clearly fraudulent election. His main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, has withdrawn from consideration as a candidate, ruling out a run-off election. That leaves us with an Afghan government of little or no ...
Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch - The Hyman Roth Version
democracyarsenal.org 19 days ago — Hamid Karzai is a gangster. What else can you say about the guy? He goes and basically tries to steal the first round of the Afghanistan presidential election - the UN, NATO and the US freaks out and demands he stand for a runoff with Abdullah ...
Without an Opponent, Karzai Declared Winner — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission has declared President Hamid Karzai the winner of a second 5-year term after his rival Abdullah Abdullah dropped out of the race. Dr. Abdullah said the runoff would be just as corrupt as the original election and withdrew in protest.  ...
Abdullah Pulls Out? — The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Mac McCallister, a friend of Tom Ricks, thinks that Abdullah is just playing politics: The Pashtun Karzai is still the front-man in this charade...In the meantime all will send delegates to Abdullah Abdullah to talk him off the ledge...The negotiations to keep Abdullah Abdullah in the ...
Speculation on Whether Abdullah will Join National Unity Government; MPs call for US withdrawal — Informed Comment
Matthew Green of the FT, reporting from Kabul , suggests that Abdullah Abdullah may still be open to a post in Hamid Karzai's cabinet. That outcome is not impossible given Afghanistan's mercurial politics. But it seems to me unlikely, since Abdullah is accusing his rival in the country's ...
Abdullah Pulls Out -- By: Jonah Goldberg — The Corner on National Review Online
This will make things more complicated: Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from Afghanistan’s Nov. 7 presidential run-off election against Hamid Karzai, saying a “free and fair” ballot wouldn’t have been possible. He urged his supporters “not to take to the streets” or ...
Abdullah Pulls Out Of Afghan Runoff — The Moderate Voice
Presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah has announced he won’t participate in the upcoming runoff election, a move that insures a victory for incumbent Hamid Karzai. It is not clear at this point if he will formally withdraw or if he will simply stop campaigning. Abdullah has accused ...
Abdullah pulls out of Afghan vote — The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
Nov 1 BBC - President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced in Kabul that he is withdrawing from the poll. Abdullah Abdullah had set out conditions he wanted to be met for the contest to be considered fair. But Mr Karzai rejected his ...
Mudville Gazette: Abdullah Abduallah pulls out - should we? — Victory Caucus -- All Content
Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzais main rival for office of President of Afghanistan, has withdrawn from the scheduled November 7 runoff election there, saying his demands for ensuring a fraud-free election had not been met. However, he stopped short of calling for his supporters to boycott the ...
Abdullah withdraws from Afghanistan Presidential Race — Informed Comment
Abdullah Abdullah announced Sunday morning that he has withdrawn from the second round of Afghanistan's presidential election on the grounds that the same local officials, appointed by his rival, incumbent Hamid Karzai, will supervise the runoff as winked at massive fraud in the first round. ...
Afghan candidate Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of run-off election — Rantburg
Can't say I blame him, but it will put the cat amongst the UN pigeons. OPPOSITION candidate Abdullah Abdullah announced that he was pulling out of this week's run-off presidential election in Afghanistan. "The decision which I am going to announce was not an easy one. It was a decision ...
Abdullah May Pull Out Of Afghan Runoff — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
UNITED NATIONS — Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, and Abdullah is likely to pull out of next week's presidential runoff, a person with knowledge of the talks said Friday. An announcement could come as early as Saturday but ...
Source: Abdullah may pull out of Afghan runoff — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091031/ap_on_re_us/un_un_afghanistan_election;_ylt=Aq48AQTwWUKf81clQVwO[/b] By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS – Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, and Abdullah is ...
Abdullah Demands Election Chief Sacking — Rantburg
[Quqnoos] Dr Abdullah has said on Monday that the head of Afghanistan's election body should be replaced ahead of the run-off election. President Hamid Karzai's main rival in the Nov. 7 run-off election, Abdullah Abdullah, said the head of Independent Election Commission (IEC) has "no ...
Karzai, Abdullah At Odds About Afghan Election Official — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Considering the outcome of the last presidential election, or attempt at same, in Afghanistan, it’s not surprising that Hamid Karzai’s challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, would balk at the idea of letting the same polling officials head up the voting effort during the runoff slated ...
Abdullah supports troop increase, but within a broader plan — 44
By John Amick and T. Rees Shapiro FOX NEWS SUNDAY - Abdullah: Afghans must have faith in runoff Afghan opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah said he would not fully support the Nov. 7 runoff vote against incumbent president Hamid Karzai if reforms did not take place to improve transparency and ...
Mudville Gazette: Abdullah Abdullah — Victory Caucus -- All Content
On CNN (video below). Would have made for interesting television to hear him answer questions on his fraudulent votes in the Afghan elections, but thats not the message the Obama administration wants Americans receiving just now. Well have to settle for Abdullah explaining his opponents ...