Al-Qaida Aims to Disrupt Afghan Elections
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KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.    In the latest bloodshed, Afghan police said suspected Taliban gunmen killed nine militia soldiers in two attacks on checkpoints in a troubled southern province...
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The impending attack could decentralize the Iraqi insurgency and increase the risk of violence during elections.
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Afghan troops have foiled an attempt to blow up a fuel truck in the city of Kandahar in what the governor says could have been a &quot;catastrophic&quot; attack to disrupt a landmark election.
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FOREIGN fighters from the al-Qaeda terror network were infiltrating Afghanistan to disrupt upcoming elections, the commander of US forces in the country said today.
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U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are stepping up efforts to improve security before next month's election, focusing on the south and southeast where militants have been most active, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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The campaign for Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election opened to little fanfare on  Tuesday, but the Taliban -- ousted in 2001 in a U.S.-led  invasion -- vowed again to disrupt the Oct. 9 poll.
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Leaders of al-Qaida and the Taliban have held a series of meetings in Pakistan to discuss how to disrupt Afghanistan's upcoming elections, the U.S. military said Monday.
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US-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD -- The most wanted militant in Iraq declared a "fierce war" against democracy yesterday and repeated a threat to disrupt national elections scheduled for Jan. 30.
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KABUL, Afghanistan More than 100-thousand Afghan and foreign security forces are on high alert the day before the country&#39;s first direct presidential election.
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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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WASHINGTON - As the election draws nearer, U.S. officials are increasingly concerned al-Qaida terrorists will mount a devastating attack to try to disrupt the political process...
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Afghans vote Saturday in the first direct presidential elections in their history, under the threat of violence from anti-US militants and Osama bin Laden's terror network.
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Election officials are beefing up security and taking other precautions at many of the nation's 200,000 polling places amid continuing concern that al-Qaida terrorists are intent on disrupting the U.S. political process.
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The United States wants Afghanistan  to coax lower-level Taliban members away from the organization  to help end an insurgency after the group failed to disrupt  last Saturday's historic presidential election.
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Thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan  may have failed to catch Osama bin Laden but they are credited  with encouraging millions of Afghans to register for the  country's historic election in October.
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The U.S. government begins an  unusually open offensive this week aimed at disrupting  potential terrorist plots before and during the November  election, The Washington Post reported Monday.