Security High for Afghan Elections
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More than 100,000 Afghan and foreign security forces were on high alert Friday, the day before the country&#39;s first direct presidential election after more than two decades of war.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Interim leader Hamid Karzai widened his early lead Saturday in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, but the deaths of two US soldiers and three Afghan children in bomb attacks underscored that peace and security still elude much of the
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Afghan forces backed by 9,000 NATO troops are poised to provide security as national elections approach, but a spectacular offensive by anti-government rebels cannot be ruled out, the top U.S. diplomat in Afghanistan said Friday.
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An attempt to shoot down President Hamid Karzai's helicopter just three weeks before Afghanistan's elections is indicative of the fraught security situation which is threatening the success of the polls, analysts said.
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A sampling of Election Day security measures being taken by state and local officials around the country amid threat of a possible terrorist attack.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai is certain to win Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election, his campaign spokesman said Tuesday, after early returns gave him a commanding advantage.
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Afghans braved threats of Taliban attacks to begin voting today in a historic presidential election that they hope will mark the beginning of the end to a quarter century of conflict.
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Afghan warlords are involved in intimidation which could threaten October's elections, Human Rights Watch says.
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Nato could expand its force in Afghanistan ahead of elections due in April, a top alliance commander says.
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Wartime security was rolled out for Afghanistan's interim President Hamid Karzai as he addressed his first election campaign rally outside the capital amidst spiralling violence.
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U.S. officials hoping to stop a  possible al Qaeda attack before the November election face the  difficult task of providing enough security without scaring  voters away from the polling stations.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan The military and the police closed Afghanistan&#39;s main roads and cities Friday in a security operation anticipating bomb attacks or other violence during the country&#39;s first presidential election Saturday.
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Despite the recent success of Afghanistan's presidential election, next year's local and parliamentary elections will be "more susceptible to fraud and intimidation," a senior U.N. official said Tuesday.
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JAKARTA - Security forces remain on high alert as Indonesians head to the polls in an election that could see the opposition leader become president.
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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai  promised Afghans greater security when they go to vote in the  country's first ever democratic election during an independence  day speech on Wednesday.
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On the eve of Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election, Muslim clerics urged Friday worshippers to embrace democracy, election workers scurried to ready voting booths and 100,000 troops went on high alert across the country.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Elections heralded as the dawn of democracy in war-ravaged Afghanistan will be hijacked by warlords able to intimidate voters and candidates to entrench their own power, a leading rights group warned today.