Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, kept squabbling and trading charges of fraud until the election pre-rigged by Washington fell apart. The real ruler of most of Afghanistan remains the US military and Obama.
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.
AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
KABUL — U.N.-backed fraud investigators on Monday threw out nearly a third of President Hamid Karzai's votes from the August election, undercutt...
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
KABUL — Afghanistan has a two-week window to realistically hold any presidential runoff vote before winter sets in, an election official said Th...
AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
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...
Inter Press Service | Analysis by Gareth Porter | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) - Afghanistan's presidential election has long been viewed by U.S. officials as a key to conferring legit...
Times Online | Tom Coghlan in Kabul | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
Supporters of President Karzai are preparing to rig voting in next week's presidential elections in unstable parts of Afghanistan's south as Taleban v...
Telegraph | Ben Farmer in Kabul and Dean Nelson in Delhi | Posted 03.29.2009 | World
The Afghan president is understood to be considering throwing his political enemies into turmoil by springing a poll as early as April 21, despite fea...
GlobalPost.com | Jean MacKenzie | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
KABUL -- Hamid Karzai's days as president of Afghanistan appear to be numbered. But his behavior would indicate that somebody forgot to tell the man...
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.05.2009 | World