Posted on 08 November 2009. Tags: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, aides, analyst, assessment team, Barack Obama, coalition, commanders, europe, ICG, indigenous security force, insurgents, International Crisis Group, Islamic government, John Kerry, Kabul, Mark Schneider, military officers, mujaheddin rebels, Mujda, NATO, Pentagon, reinforcements, security force, senior lieutenants, soldiers, Soviet Union, Stanley McChrystal, Stephen Biddle, Taliban, Taliban leader Mullah Brader Akhund, The New Republic journal, the Senate, The Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, think tank, troops, U.S. general, U.S. Senate, United Kingdom, United States, vice president of the ICG, Waheed Mujda, war, war strategy
By Chris Otton (AFP)
KABUL — With Hamid Karzai confirmed as Afghan president for another five years, the pressure is on Barack Obama to declare his plans for winning a war which commanders say is in danger of being lost. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 October 2009. Tags: Afghan, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, election, election commission, fraud, iraq, Kabul, President Hamid Karzai, President Nouri al-Maliki, Robert Gibbs, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator John Kerry, U.N., U.S. diplomats, United Nations, United States, vote, voting fraud, White House
White House
20 October 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama has called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to personally congratulate him for agreeing to take part in a run-off election on November 7. Afghanistan’s election commission called for another round of voting after a U.N.-backed commission determined the original August balloting was rife with fraud. Read the full story
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