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

Guardian | Jon Boone | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan, Afghan Election Runoff, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Afghan Runoff, Hamid Karzai, Afghan Election, Threats to Afghanistan Election, World News

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

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Jihadists, Al Qaeda, Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan, 9/11, Joe Biden, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Nato, Counter-Insurgency, Northern Alliance, Counter-Terrorist, Stanley McChrystal, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Taliban, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Nation-Building, Nobel Peace Prize, Osama Bin Laden, World News
William Bradley

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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Hamid Karzai's Brother Only Tip Of Iceberg Of U.S. Dependence On Afghan Warlords: IPS

Inter Press Service | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan Warlords, Cia Afghan Warlords, Cia, Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Gareth Porter, Hamid Karzai's Brother, Inter Press Service, Hamid Karzai, World News

By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) - The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President ...

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Taliban: If You Can't Beat Them, Buy Them!

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Hamid Karzai, Cia, Taliban, Opium, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News
Jamal Dajani

Afghanistan is not Iraq. Unlike the Sunni Awakening, when Iraqi tribe members took up arms against al-Qaeda and foreign insurgents, the Taliban are an integral part of Afghanistan, not foreign fighters.

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The CIA, The Brothers Karzai and Spinning our COIN Wheels

Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Durgs, Nato, Coin, Cia, Poppy, Afghanistan, Opium, Andew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News
Richard Allen Smith

We are partnering with a symbol of government corruption, which undermines any trust we might receive from the population. We are funding the insurgency we are attempting to counter.

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Ahmed Wali Karzai Denies CIA Pay

AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan Election, Afghanistan, Karzai Brother, Afghan Cia, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Wali Karzai CIA, Hamid Karzai, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News

KABUL — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, on Wednesday denied reports that he has received regular payments from the CIA f...

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What We Owe Afghanistan

Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Women's Rights, Women, Violence Against Women, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, World News
Taylor Marsh

As it now stands, the Afghan women are worse off today than they were when the Taliban reigned. We cannot leave it at that, or Afghanistan will become even more of a corrupt mess.

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CIA Pays Off Another Afghan Despot, Hopes for the Best

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan Warlords, Realpolitik, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Cia, Human Rights Watch, Warlords, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News
Allison Kilkenny

It appears as though the CIA is -- yet again -- employing the good ol' "The Enemy of My Enemy is The Guy Who Screws Me In The End" foreign policy doctrine.

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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

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan Run Off, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Abdullah Abdullah Boycott, Afghan Runoff, Hamid Karzai, World News

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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Sam Stein

Dems Counter-Punch Cheney: He Masterminded Failure (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheney Dithering, Democrats Dick Cheney, Carl Levin, Brown Cheney, Levin Cheney, Sherrod Brown, Dick Cheney Afghanistan, Cheney Counter-Punch, Hamid Karzai, Politics News

Democrats pushed back forcefully against Dick Cheney on Sunday for comments the former vice president made accusing President Barack Obama of "ditheri...

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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

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Voter Fraud, Afghanistan War, Karzai, Afghanistan, Kabul, Obama, Election Commission, Election News, Hamid Karzai, Afghan Election, Runoff, Iec, Un, Us, World News

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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New On The NYR Blog

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Censorship, Political Prisoners, Blogs, Afghani Elections, New York Review of Books, Karzai, Iran, Middle East, New York Review, Tehran, Afghanistan Election, Afghanistan, New York Review Blog, Books, Nyr, Books News

The New York Review blog has two new posts up today, from Haleh Esfandiari, who writes about her tenure in Evin Prison in Tehran, and Ahmed Rashid, wh...

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Western Export of the Ballot Box Elixir is Pure Hubris

Simon Jenkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Ngo, Afghanistan, Nato, David Petraeus, 9/11, Afghans, Sweden, Barack Obama, Tora Bora, World News
Simon Jenkins

It is insufferable that Afghanistan, a miserable statelet, can reject liberal democracy despite the efforts of 70,000 NATO and NGO staff kicking their heels in Kabul's dust for eight years.

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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

Read More: Senator John Kerry, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Isaf, President Barack Obama, Afghan-Runoff, Taliban, Pashtun, Al Qaeda, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tajik, Rahm Emanuel, Northern Alliance, Nato, Independent Electoral Commission, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, General Stanley McChrystal, Afpak, Kai Eide, Afghan Election Fraud, Afghanistan Karzai Abdullah, Afghanistan Run-Off Election, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

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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Afghanistan: Fraud, Opium, and Taliban

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Nato, Taliban, Opium, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Afghan Election, World News
Jamal Dajani

Why isn't Mr. Karzai being held responsible for this blatant act of election fraud? And who can guarantee that a repeat of the fraud won't happen? Or that all hell won't break loose during the run-off?

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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

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Corrupt Election, Abdullah Abdullah, John Kerry, Afghanistan, Ben Berkon, Afghan Presidential Election, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

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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Uncle Sam in Afghanistan: Good Help Is Hard to Find

Norman Solomon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Pentagon, Escalation, Vietnam War, Obama Administration, Abdullah Abdullah, Politics News
Norman Solomon

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
William Bradley

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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Afghanistan Vote Masks Obama's Predicament, Again

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghan Government, Afghanistan Vote, Obama Afghanistan, John Kerry Afghanistan, Obama Afghan War, Robert Gates Afghanistan, President Obama, Afghanistan Runoff, Afghanistan Corruption, Afghanistan Election, Hamid Karzai, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's relief at the agreement that could quiet the political crisis over Afghanistan's spoiled election masks hi...

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Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai Rival, Accepts Runoff Election

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan Election, Abdullah Abdullah Runoff, War Wire, Afghanistan Runoff, Afghanistan Run Off, Foreign Affairs, Hamid Karzai, World News

KABUL — Afghan authorities plan to close thousands of polling stations and hire new poll workers to discourage the fraud that tarnished the Augu...

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Everything You Have Been Told About Afghanistan Is Wrong: The Three Great Fallacies

Johann Hari | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Jim Jones, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News
Johann Hari

Obama has to decide now whether to side with the American people and the Afghan people calling for a rapid reduction in US force, or with a small military clique demanding a ramping-up of the conflict.

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Karzai Declared Winner of Next Month's Runoff

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Hamid Karzai, Runoff, Andy Borowitz, Octomom, Afghanistan, Balloon Boy, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

In a stunning victory, Afghan president Hamid Karzai today was declared the winner of the runoff election scheduled to take place November 7.

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Afghanistan Runoff Accepted By Hamid Karzai, Will Be November 7

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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KABUL — Facing Taliban threats and approaching winter snows, Afghan election officials must now scramble to organize a runoff presidential elect...

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Karzai Appears Set To Agree To Runoff In Afghan Election

New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE and HELENE COOPER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan War, Karzai, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghan Recount, Obama, Taliban, Election Results, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry, White House, Abdullah, Runoff, Un, Hillary Clinton, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Under heavy international pressure, President Hamid Karzai appears set to concede as early as Tuesday that he fell short of a fi...

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Afghan Fraud Report Leads To Standoff Between White House, Karzai

guardian.co.uk | Jon Boone in Kabul, Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Patrick Wintour | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan War, Obama Afghanistan, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, War Wire, Afghan Election Results, Afghanistan Runoff, Foreign Affairs, Hamid Karzai, Afghan Fraud, World News

The White House was engaged in a dangerous and unpredictable stand-off with the Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai today after a United Nations commis...

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