Wartime security as Karzai campaigns amid spiralling violence
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 7, 2004 - Afghanistan&#39;s historic election campaign got under way Tuesday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the race to become the impoverished country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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TORONTO, Sept. 22 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a forceful argument Friday for keeping Canadian troops in his country, appealing to a Canadian public wavering over growing casualties and the rise in fighting there.
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OTTAWA/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan President   Hamid Karzai urged Canada to stay the course in his war-torn   country, where 19 people were killed on Friday by Taliban   forces who have also targeted foreign peacekeepers.
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THE Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, campaigned outside Kabul yesterday for the first time since surviving an assassination attempt last month, telling cheering supporters that Saturdayâs election would be a turning point for the war-torn nation.
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The Kabul bombing came amid a sharp escalation of violence in Afghanistan.
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Hamid Karzai's inauguration as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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Clashes and bombings killed 34 Taliban fighters and one policeman in Afghanistan, while President Hamid Karzai told the U.N. Wednesday that terrorist sanctuaries elsewhere must be destroyed to eliminate the violence engulfing his country.
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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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WASHINGTON, October 08 (Online): As Afghans prepare for their first presidential elections on October 9, President Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun, is being challenged by over a dozen factional leaders, but most Afghans and international officials expect him to
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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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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai has left his heavily fortified compound in Kabul for his first election rally, in the last week of campaigning, for this Saturday&#39;s first ever direct elections.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s main opponent in a landmark election took center stage on Saturday, while the incumbent, almost invisible during the campaign amid security
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai accused NATO and US-led troops yesterday of carelessly killing scores of Afghan civilians and warned that the fight against resurgent Taliban militants could fail unless foreign forces show more restraint.
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KABUL (Afghanistan) - Polling has started in Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever direct presidential election on Saturday, with interim leader Hamid Karzai widely favoured against more than a dozen rivals while 100,000 troops were on high alert for expected violence
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Rival militias clashed in western Afghanistan yesterday, reportedly killing 21 people and ramping up concern about security as the country prepares for landmark elections.
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Afghanistan&#39;s election tomorrow, after 22 years of war, is likely to return Interim President Hamid Karzai as leader amid threats of violence and questions about the legitimacy of the process.