Security tight for Afghan inauguration
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Afghan and international forces laid a security ring around Kabul on Monday in preparation for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in yesterday as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, watched by an audience that included America&#39;s vice-president and defence secretary.
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KABUL, 10/09 - Afghanistan`s first direct presidential election began at 7 aM (local time) Saturday amid tight security. More than 10.
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6 December 2004 - On the eve of the inauguration of Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected President, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that despite key political gains, the country faces broad security threats as coalition and other
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony in the capital Kabul, witnesses said.
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KABUL - NATO peacekeepers and Afghan police will draw a tight security blanket over the Afghan capital in coming days as up to 50 foreign dignitaries descend on Kabul for President Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration on Tuesday, officials said.
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U.S. authorities are imposing  unprecedented security to protect the inauguration of President  Bush on Jan 20, the first such ceremony since the Sept. 11 2001  attacks, officials said on Tuesday.
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The new Afghan cabinet has been sworn in at a ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul. The line-up replaces some key warlords with reformers and technocrats.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, and new Cabinet members during the swearing in ceremony of the country&#39;s new Cabinet at the Presidential Palace in Kabul Dec. 24.
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A German soldier, right, of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and an Afghan security police stand guard below a poster of President Hamid Karzai in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.
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Security has been boosted in the Afghan capital for commemorations of the fifth anniversary of the killing of anti-Taliban resistance hero Ahmed Shah Massoud, after a deadly suicide blast.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president today, promising to restore security to the war-shattered country three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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Security was tightened across Kabul on Monday in the wake of a vehicle bomb on Sunday that killed three Americans working for an American contractor and at least four other people.
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After more than two decades of war, Afghanistan votes today in its first Presidential elections. And with the Taliban threatening to disrupt the polls, security is very tight across the country.
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The Taliban threatened Monday to launch  attacks during the swearing in of Afghan President Hamid Karzai  while the U.S. military said every precaution was being taken  to protect a ceremony to be attended by top U.S. officials.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Authorities in Afghanistan are stepping up security measures as Hamid Karzai&#39;s (HAH&#39;-mihd KAHR&#39;-zeyez) presidential inauguration nears.
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Hamid Karzai was set to be sworn in on Tuesday as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president at a ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for easing him into power.