Karzai about face could salvage Afghanistan election
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UN chief acknowledges fraud in Afghan vote
By: BiodunIginla
Sunday, October 11, 2009 by Nasra Ismail and Biodun Iginla, BBC News. Nasra Ismail reported from Kabul.2 hrs 54 mins ago
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Clinton warning to Afghan leader
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said whoever wins Afghanistan's recent election will be expected to do more to address the country's problems. Speaking to the BBC while in London, Mrs Clinton said the next leader needed to build better relationships with the US, the army and the Afghan people. She said America's goal in Afghanistan ...
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Afghan UN backed fraud panel member resigns citing foreigners ...
By: northsunm32
The Electoral Complaints Commission which makes the ultimate decisions on the results of the election is set up so that it ensures that foreigners make the final decision as to the results. That is the whole idea after all of having just two Afghans to three foreigners on the commission. I have yet to see any report that even sees this as a ...
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As many speculations arose wherein former United States first lady and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will run for president. As you noticed this past few days, Bill Clinton's wife is no longer involved with White House's critical decisions regarding lots of things, there's issue about Health Care Reform Plan, to add or not to add U.S. ...
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- News Source: The Frontier Post | about 1 month agoOne of President Obama's top advisers has said the Bush administration failed to ask critical questions about the war in Afghanistan, leaving the Obama administration starting from scratch and leaving the war "adrift." White House Chief of Staff Rahm...
- News Source: The Boston Globe | about 1 month agoU.S. officials expect Afghan President Hamid Karzai to concede on Tuesday that he fell short of the 50 percent vote share in August's election that he needed to win outright, but it was unclear Monday whether that would lead quickly to a runoff...
- News Source: Washington Post | about 1 month agoThat brought him below 50 percent of the total and triggered a constitutionally mandated second round of voting between him and the runner-up, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah. Senior administration officials, while palpably relieved at what...
- News Source: University Daily Kansan | about 1 month agoIn what has become President Barack Obama’s biggest foreign-policy decision thus far in his term, many top officials have urged him to send as many as 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Here’s what three of our columnists think about the...
- News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | about 1 month agoCommittee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., who has been involved in an intense U.S.-led effort to pressure Mr. Karzai into dropping his objections to the United Nations-sponsored Electoral Complaints Commission's fraud audit. As part of the full-court...
- News Source: Dawn | about 1 month agoA UN-backed watchdog overseeing Afghanistan’s elections ordered votes from 210 polling stations thrown out on Monday in a move that observers said deprived President Hamid Karzai of an outright win. Findings from the Electoral Complaints...
- Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.comIn Kabul, Karzai campaign spokesman Waheed Omar said the president was waiting for the Afghan-led Independent Election Commission to decide whether to accept the fraud panel's findings that dropped Karzai's vote share to 48 percent of ...
- Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.comIt was unclear, however, whether the Afghan-led Independent Election Commission would accept the findings of the fraud panel and announce a runoff. Karzai's spokesman said it was too soon to make a judgment based on the figures released ...
- Blog Source: rawstory.comAfghan fraud panel voids thousands of Karzai votes Afghanistan's UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), publishing a report into mass allegations of vote fraud, on Monday ordered that ballots from 210 polling stations be ...
- Blog Source: chattahbox.comAfghan Election Fraud Report Voids Thousands of Ballots - Runoff Likely. October 19, 2009. (ChattahBox) — A panel probing fraud claims in the Afghan election has found Hamid Karzai did not gain enough valid votes for an outright win. ...
- Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.comFrench Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner gestures during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. Kouchner urged Afghanistan's political rivals Sunday to accept the findings of a fraud investigation that could ...
- Blog Source: ac360.blogs.cnn.comDemocracy International has analyzed the results from data previously released and believes the ECC audit decisions should result in a runoff election, according to Afghanistan's Electoral Law. Our calculations suggest the percentage rejection of
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- Video Source: www.truveo.comKarzai to call for '...Video Source: www.truveo.comKarzai to call for 'resolution' in Afghan election
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@jaketapper @mbaou80 what r u talking about @chriscuomo just was in afghanistan + @nickschifrin is doing great reporting for us there
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@jaketapper our WN chat w/Charlie on the view of Kabul from the WH: http://bit.ly/4xSLhp
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@brianstelter "The Baghdad class of 2003 is now the Kabul class of 2009." My take on Afghanistan media coverage: http://bit.ly/1MTus7
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@jaketapper Today in Kabul: the view from the White House > http://bit.ly/2BGhia
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@markknoller @VRWCTexan U.S. government couldn't be seen taking sides against karzai.
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@stevebruskCNN Analysis of election data by independent group Democracy Int after votes thrown out shows Karzai did not get enough to avoid runoff
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@dangerroom Wow. 28% of Karzai's 3,093,000 votes were bogus - and so were 18% of Abdullah's. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/world/
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@stevebruskCNN Only 31% of Americans in poll think a stable Democratic government in Afghanistan is likely, 68% say it's unlikely
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@stevebruskCNN 41% in CNN/ORC poll say they support the war in Afghanistan, 57% oppose. (53% said they supported war in April)
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