uh huh...looks like the US couldnt get Karzai to guarantee immunity for US troops to stay beyond 2014..out he goes..need another puppet.. --------------------------------------- The United States, which has led an international effort to restore democracy in Afghanistan since it helped oust the hardline Islamic Taliban regime in 2001, desperately wants the election to be the crowning moment of its presence before Western combat troops withdraw at the end of 2014. The winning candidate will replace President Hamid Karzai, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third five-year term. Among the candidates are his elder brother Qayum, former foreign minister Zalmay Rassoul, another former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and a former Islamist warlord turned parliamentarian, Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf. Some of the candidates and their supporters were on opposite sides of the Afghan civil war in the 1990s and charges of fraud in the election could set off fresh tensions, strengthening the Taliba reuters/article/2013/10/14/us-afghanistan-election-idUSBRE99D0O120131014
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:06:34 +0000
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