Despite fears of attacks at polls, 'resilient' Afghans ready to vote
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A day before Afghanistan's historic presidential election, Captain Jacob Larkowich's US infantry company took up positions on a hilltop next to the Intercontinental Hotel, looking out over the dusty capital for puffs of smoke and bracing to rush to the scene of any bombing.
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Afghans have begun heading to the polls in the country&#39;s first direct democratic election, almost three years after the hard-line Taliban regime was ousted by a US-led military campaign.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential elections are due to take place in just two weeks. Senior US military officials are warning that Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters are increasing their efforts to undermine the vote.
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Despite threats from the Taliban to disrupt the upcoming elections in Afghanistan, campaigns for the first post-Taliban elections began today.
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Memories of Sept. 11 shadowed Americans as they turned out in heavy numbers to vote Tuesday. Voters often cast their ballots according to their fears about getting attacked again, exit poll data suggested.
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After decades of rule by the bullet instead of the ballot box, war-weary Afghans could not hide their delight as they got the chance to vote in elections they hope will end years of conflict.
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The Afghan government says it is confident that presidential elections will go ahead despite threats of violence.
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Afghanistan was preparing on Tuesday to  count votes after rivals of President Hamid Karzai said they  had withdrawn their rejection of the weekend presidential poll.
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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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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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Campaigning is under  way for Afghanistan's presidential poll, amid warnings of insecurity and intimidation.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 8, 2004 - In advance of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever direct presidential election, Muslim clerics urged Friday worshippers to embrace democracy, election workers scurried to ready voting
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- In schools and mosques, wearing suits and burkas, Afghans voted yesterday in the first presidential election, and did not suffer the widespread violence that officials had feared. But the ballot was thrown into doubt when candidates challenging interim President Hamid Karzai called the results invalid after many stations used the wrong ink to mark voters' thumbs.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan - In advance 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.    After the discovery of a truck laden with 10,000 gallons of gasoline and rigged with anti-tank mines, a nation that has known nothing but war held its breath in hopes that a threat by the Taliban to sabotage Saturday's vote would not materialize...
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With just three days to go before historic elections, President Hamid Karzai urged Afghans on Wednesday to follow the example of their warrior ancestors and become heroes -- but of the ballot box and not the battlefield.
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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.