Afghan president makes rare campaign trip
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Watched over by American bodyguards and sharpshooters, Afghanistan&#39;s eternally optimistic interim president told a campaign rally of 10,000 people Tuesday that this weekend&#39;s election is a key step in their recovery from
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote count passed one million ballots Monday with incumbent
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai campaigned on Tuesday for the first time since an  assassination attempt last month, telling thousands of  supporters that a historic vote in four days would be a turning  point for the war-torn nation.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai returns  home on Monday with less than a week to go before a historic  election with the opposition scrambling to present a unified  challenge to the heavily favored incumbent.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai aborted an election campaign trip to the southeastern  province of Gardez on Thursday after a rocket exploded just  before he was due to land by helicopter.
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As Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever democratic presidential election gains steam, incumbent Hamid Karzai&#39;s biggest challenger is emerging from the pack of 17 other candidates.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Assailants fired a rocket at an American helicopter taking President Hamid Karzai on a rare foray into Afghanistan's troubled provinces yesterday, but it missed and he escaped injury.
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The incumbent Afghan transitional president Hamid Karzai is more convinced that he will go out of the first presidential elections triumphantly next Saturday, after his second and successful trip outside the capital Tuesday.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai campaigned on Tuesday for the first time since an  assassination attempt last month, telling cheering supporters a  historic vote in four days would be a turning point for the  war-torn nation.
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New figures suggest President Hamid Karzai has received over 75% of media coverage for the Afghan elections.
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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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GARDEZ, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai had to abort a rare campaign rally Thursday in this town southeast of the capital when a rocket was fired over his helicopter as it began to land.
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai has steered Afghanistan from the ruins of war to its first elected presidency, using skills honed from plotting to end Soviet occupation and negotiating the minefield of volatile Afghan politics.
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A fleet of helicopters escorted by fighter jets flew Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai to his first campaign rally outside Kabul as the war-shattered country counted down to elections.
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26 September 2004 -- Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai today made his first election campaign trip outside the capital Kabul since he a rocket attack targeted his helicopter on a similar trip earlier this month.
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Assailants fired a rocket at an American helicopter taking President Hamid Karzai on a rare foray into Afghanistan&#39;s troubled provinces Thursday, but it missed and he escaped injury.
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The two main rivals in Afghanistan's  first presidential election threw themselves into campaigning  Tuesday, drawing crowds of supporters four days before a vote  that many hope could be a turning point for the war-torn  nation.