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Pesky Abdullah By Robert Weller All right already. The Obama Administration and its allies have decided the Afghan election thing is over. Sure we know President Hamid Karzai stole it, and only agreed to hold a runoff because he would...
Tags: fraud, elections, afghanistan, opium, corruption, taliban, crooks, karzai, abdullah
"democracies make elections, elections don't make democracies" After Afghanistan's fraudulent elections President Obama's future politics in failing state is still foggy. Conflicting views of Obama's staff, escalation of War to Pakistan, lack of clear...
Tags: Afghanistan, US foreign policy, EU external relations, crisis management, Obama, Karzai, BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila
No need to call off elections, issue yes/no ballots with green yes and red no By Robert Weller As an old Africa hand I think I have a way to allow the Afghanistan election to go ahead with perhaps no more than a week’s delay. One cautionary note,...
Tags: vote fraud, corruption, karzai, abdullah, obama, bush, hillary, opium
Obama Welcomes Election of Vote Thief By Robert Weller President Obama promised voters he would work to end the war in Afghanistan. So far he has approved a new term for President Karzai, who would have been disqualified in many countries for rigging...
Tags: afghanistan, guerrillas, taliban, karzai, abdullah, obama, vietnam, corruption, cia, fraud, opium, hillary, pakistan, iran
The UN seemed to back Karzai for some while until it became clear that there were just too many of his votes to be discarded and no doubt because of pressure from the US and Abdullah Abdullah to have a runoff. However, as this article points...
This is all part of the managed democracy arranged courtesy of the US and NATO with the UN helping out. The runoff election will no doubt also feature deals and some fraud. Abdullah Abdullah is not even close to Karzai even after all the Karzai...
Tags: Afghan runoff election, Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai, Afghan election results
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Search term Explore the BBC BBC News Updated every minute of every day One-Minute World News News Front Page Africa Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Middle East South Asia UK Business Health Science & Environment...
Tags: Afghanistan, bbc news.nasra ismail, biodun iginla, karzai
Afghan President Could Risk His Safety By Opposing Runoff Election What's new: Updates with runoff election to be held Nov. 7 By Robert Weller With the main backers of the international force in Afghanistan sending strong signals that President Hamid...
Tags: Afghanistan election, assassination, Vietnam, Obama, Kerry, Karzai
Afghanistan's presidential election is heading toward a runoff, and the campaign of incumbent Hamid Karzai appears to be backing off threats to reject such a result. Analysts see these developments as a step toward restoring some credibility to an election...
Tags: karzai, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Mr. Karzai, U.S, Barack Obama, president hamid, White House, fell short
The US and NATO would love if Karzai would lose in a runoff or just behave and go along with what is planned. Instead he is accusing the complaints commission of political meddling and manipulation an accusation that could be true even though many of...
Tags: Karzai, Afghan election results, Election Complaints Commission