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Karzai Declared President; Questions about Afghan Police Recruits; Bad Translations Land Innocents in Jail

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner of the Afghanistan presidential contest by the misnamed Independent Electoral Commission, the local Afghan commission appointed by . . . Hamid Karzai. The commission ruled that since the only other candidate had withdrawn, there was no point in holding a run-off election, and that Karzai had won by default. His rival, Abdullah Abdullah appears to still...


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