americablog.com - 27 days ago
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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 day after Karzai's top challenger declared ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 28 days ago
mudvillegazette.com - 29 days ago
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mudvillegazette.com —
( 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 ...
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Round two (part two)
mudvillegazette.com - 28 days ago
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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of President of Afghanistan, has withdrawn from the scheduled...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 ...
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Abdullah Abduallah pulls out - should we?
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mudvillegazette.com 10/28/2009 —
By the looks of it, this NY Times story was going to tell the whole truth : The Great American Arm-Twist in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- By the looks of it, the ceremony that unfolded last week inside the Presidential Palace here was marking a joyous, even triumphant, occasion.
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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.
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