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UN Official Temporarily Leaves Afghanistan Over Election Dispute

CP | Jason Straziuso (CP) | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A top American official at the United Nations mission in Afghanistan has temporarily left the country following a disagreement w...

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Afghanistan Election: Abdullah Abdullah Calls For Criminal Inquiry Into Vote Rigging

Times Online | James Hider in Kabul | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

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Afghanistan's opposition leader has called for a criminal investigation into allegations of massive vote rigging in last month's elections -- and accu...

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Afghan Election: Pressure Mounts For Karzai To Strike A Deal

The Observer | Declan Walsh | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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Five US soldiers were among dozens killed in a wave of violence in Afghanistan as pressure grew on President Hamid Karzai last night to strike a power...

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"Apostate" Hussain Muradi to be Deported to Afghanistan

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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Ali A. Rizvi

Muradi, a prominent and vocal member of the UK's Council of Ex-Muslims, renounced Islam as part of his fight against Islamists -- and as part of his effort to combat "the taboo that comes with such a renunciation."

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Marine's Photo Reminds Us of War that Will Not End

Michael Winship | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Michael Winship

There can be no denying the story the photo tells. It forces us to confront through a young man's violent death the ugly, bloody reality of a war.

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Afghanistan: What are These People Thinking?

Conn Hallinan | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Conn Hallinan

In many ways Afghanistan is worse than Vietnam. So, it is increasingly hard to fathom why a seemingly intelligent American administration seems determined to hitch itself to this disaster in the making.

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9/11 + 8: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

William Bradley | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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William Bradley

Eight years since 9/11. It feels like 18 years, if not 80. So much has changed since then, yet so much is still the same.

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Losing Ground: Taliban Cover 97% of Afghanistan: Report

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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Virginia M. Moncrieff

New research indicates that 80% of Afghanistan now has a permanent Taliban presence and that 97% of the country has "substantial Taliban activity."

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Claims Of Afghan Election Fraud Put U.S. In Delicate Spot

nytimes.com | MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPER | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON On Monday, as the vote-counting in Afghanistan was nearing an end, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was briefed by the American am...

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Men with Guns, in Kabul and Washington

Norman Solomon | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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Norman Solomon

Should the U.S. government keep destroying Afghanistan in order to "save" it?

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Karzai: U.S. Is Attacking Me Over Election Because It Wants Me To Be More "Docile"

AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

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PARIS — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says in an interview published in France that the United States is attacking him because it wants to him t...

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Afghanistan: Where This Is Going

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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Derrick Crowe

If anti-government violence breaks out in Helmand and other Pashtun regions, there would be absolutely no room to argue against the conclusion that counterinsurgency has failed.

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Afghanistan's Fraud-Ridden Elections To Take Weeks To Resolve

Yahoo! News | Hal Bernton and Hashim Shukoor, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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KABUL, Afghanistan �" Afghanistan's election results are headed into weeks of limbo as a government commission investigates more than 600 complaints...

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America's Afghan Election

Michael Brenner | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

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Michael Brenner

Celebrated at first by Obama on the White House lawn as a signal success marking the country's progress on the road to democracy, the Afghan election now looks like a monkey wrench thrown into the already stuttering engine of our mission there.

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Complaints Of Afghan Election Fraud Serious Enough To Affect Results

Reuters | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission has received more than 2,000 complaints of fraud or abuse in last week's disputed pres...

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UN Plans First Afghan Summit In Kabul

guardian.co.uk | Jon Boone in Kabul | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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The United Nations is planning to host an international summit on the future of Afghanistan for the first time in Kabul as an attempt to bestow credib...

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Karzai Victory

Jeff Danziger | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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Holbrooke, Karzai Have "Explosive Meeting" Over Afghan Election

BBC NEWS | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

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The BBC has learned that the US special envoy to Afghanistan has had what has been described as "an explosive meeting" with President Hamid Karzai ove...

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Afghan Elections Intended To Pacify The West: Commentary

nytimes.com | JEAN MacKENZIE | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

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The haste with which U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide held a press conference to say that Aug. 20 was "a good day for Afghanistan" merely served t...

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Abdul Rashid Doostam: Afghanistan's Damoclean Sword

Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

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Camelia Entekhabi-Fard

For Karzai, General Doostam is the only person who can break the unity of the north. And so against the wishes of the U.S. and Turkey, General Doostam came back to Afghanistan.

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Afghan Election Results: Karzai Widens Lead Over Abdullah

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai has extended his lead over his top challenger in Afghanistan's presidential election under the latest vote result...

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Afghan Bomb Strikes At Foreign Entities

The New York Times | TAIMOOR SHAH | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A huge bomb detonated on Tuesday night in a part of Kandahar where international aid agencies and United Nations offices are ...

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Afghan Elections: Abdullah Supporters Threaten Violence Over Alleged Rigging

The Independent | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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By Kim Sengupta | The Independent With the results of Afghanistan's presidential election expected later today, supporters of the opposition leader, ...

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Karzai, top rival run nearly even in Afghan vote

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai and his main rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, were running virtually even Tuesday in the first f...

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Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal: Karzai Won Afghan Election

The New York Times | CARLOTTA GALL | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai has won reelection with a clear mandate, garnering 68 percent of the vote in last week's presidential ele...

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