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Hamid Karzai Sworn In For Second 5-Year Term As Afghan President

AP | KATHY GANNON and ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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KABUL — For his critics, President Hamid Karzai's inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes – sober pledges to get tough on cor...

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My Exclusive Interview with Ken Guest -- Journalist/Analyst on Afghanistan (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.

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Taliban Claims That Canceled Afghan Election Proves Its Success

AP | ROBERT H. REID and KATHY GANNON | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai's side on Tuesday were his tw...

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White House Giving Karzai Six Months To Shape Up

New York Times | David E. Sanger | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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With the White House's reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's suddenly moot presidential runoff, President Obama n...

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Nick Horne, Resigning UN Officer: We Must Force Political Change In Afghanistan, Or Fail

Times Online | Nick Horne | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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Two days ago, I left the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan because, as I stated in my resignation letter, "I have believed for some time that the m...

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Karzai Effectively Handed 2nd Term After Abdullah Drops From Afghan Election

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai effectively secured a second term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administ...

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Abdullah Withdraws From Afghan Election

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced that he is withdrawing from the poll....

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Afghan Election Runoff Not Affected By Abdullah Abdullah's Call For Boycott: Hillary Clinton

AP | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home

JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Abdullah Abdullah's call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in Afghanist...

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Abdullah Will Quit Afghan Election, Officials Say

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai's challenger plans to call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in an attempt to force the vote's post...

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Obama Seeking Options To Send Fewer Troops To Afghanistan

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

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President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...

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Abdullah May Pull Out Of Afghan Runoff

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS — Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, and Abdullah is likely to pull o...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

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This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Iran Rejects Uranium Transfer Deal SI Analysis: In a show of shrewd and bizarre diplomacy, Iran says tha...

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Afghan Panel Rejects U.N.'s Election Runoff Advice

Guardian | Jon Boone | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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The chances of another disastrous round of voting in Afghanistan's presidential race increased dramatically today after the country's election authori...

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Afghanistan, Again: The Thicket Obama's Not Getting Out Of

William Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.

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Afghan Police: 7 Killed In Attack On UN In Kabul

AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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KABUL — Terrified U.N. workers scrambled over the roof or leaped from windows to escape choking smoke and gunfire after being awakened at dawn W...

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Matthew Hoh Resigns: State Department Official Quits Over Afghan War

Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...

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Obama's Decision On Afghanistan Troop Levels Likely Between November 7 And 11; More Troops Likely

ABC News | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Sources tell ABC News that as of now President Obama will likely announce his decision about a new strategy in Afghanistan at some point between the A...

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Abdullah Abdullah Considers Runoff Boycott If Demands Not Met

washingtonpost.com | Joshua Partlow and Pamela Constable | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

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KABUL -- The challenger to President Hamid Karzai is considering boycotting the upcoming runoff if his demands are not met to remove the leaders of Af...

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Karzai Rules Out Afghan Power Share Before Afghan Election Runoff

Washington Post | Joshua Partlow and Pamela Constable | Posted 10.25.2009 | World

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President Hamid Karzai's team shifted aggressively into campaign mode Saturday and ruled out any possibility of a power-sharing deal with challenger A...

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It's a Runoff, Now What? Parsing the Impacts of the Presidential Rematch in Afghanistan

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

A coalition government in Afghanstan, while supposedly offering the best of both worlds, tacitly condones an illegitimate election and would require America to broker power among competing personalities.

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Afghan Presidential Election Outcome Won't Be Known Until the Very Last Fake Vote Is Cast

Ben Berkon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Comedy

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In international election news, the Afghan presidential election is heating up, and won't be decided until the very last fake vote is cast.

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Call a Jirga Not a Runoff in Afghanistan

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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If the U.S. and international community are serious about this intervention and having any kind of political success (and less war) in Afghanistan, it should call a Loya Jirga, or a "grand assembly".

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Uncle Sam in Afghanistan: Good Help Is Hard to Find

Norman Solomon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Unless the best and brightest who oversee Afghan war policy can rig up a coalition with the top two contestants, a runoff between Karzai and his rival Abdullah Abdullah will happen November 7.

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Obama in the Thicket of "Afghaniranistan"

William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Britain, Cia, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Mi-6, Nobel Peace Prize, Iaea, Mossad, Moscow, Tehran, Israel, Iraq, Vienna, Special Forces, Taliban, Sayeret, Al Qaeda, Revolutionary Guard, Iranian Nuclear Program, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Soviet Union, Jihadism, Post-Soviet Space, Somalia, Cairo Address, John Kerry, World News

Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.

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