Huge Afghan poll attack 'foiled'
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Afghan forces in the southern city of Kandahar say they have foiled a truck bomb that could  have killed hundreds.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it started Saturday when all 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai said they would boycott the outcome because of potential fraud in the system designed to keep voters from casting more than one ballot.    The opponents of the U.S.-backed Karzai - who was heavily favored to win - demanded that the election be abandoned, arguing that problems with the ink used to mark voters' thumbs opened the way for widespread multiple voting...
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Afghanistan's historic presidential  election is now unstoppable, the United States said on Monday,  but other officials warned of more attacks by Taliban  guerrillas and their al Qaeda allies before Saturday's vote.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it started Saturday when all 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai alleged fraud over the ink meant to ensure people voted only once and vowed to boycott the results.    But electoral officials rejected their demand that the vote be called off, saying an apparent mix-up with the ink was not severe enough to halt the historic vote...
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The Sudanese authorities announce yesterday it had foiled a coupe attempt against the government, hours before its implementation, and attributed it to Islamists members in the People&#39;s Congress party which is led by Hassan al-Turabi.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - The likely runner-up in  Afghanistan's historic presidential election alleged on Monday  that the vote was marred by cheating, as President Hamid Karzai  appeared on course to win without needing a second round  runoff.
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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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Spanish police arrested 14 suspected Islamic militants in early morning raids Saturday, and the interior minister said authorities suspect the men were plotting a terrorist attack in Barcelona. The suspects, 12 Pakistanis and two Indian nationals, were arrested less than two months before national elections in Spain, whose last vote in March 2004 was held in the wake of Europe's worst Islamic-linked terror attack. There are fears that Islamic militants could try a similar plot to disrupt this year's vote, scheduled for March 9. Read more
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan's election and accused the U.N.-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.    Karzai, Afghanistan's stopgap president since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, had captured 62.6 percent of the 1.04 million ballots counted by Monday - about 13 percent of the vote...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan's election and accused the U.N.-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.    In the second deadly incident surrounding the election, five people - including at least one election worker - were killed by an explosion as they drove near the Pakistan border, the joint U.N.-Afghan electoral commission said...
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An election worker sorts out a ballot at the vote counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Afghanistan was expected to start counting votes on Wednesday.
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Rockets rained on Afghan cities and military posts and a huge truck bomb was seized as the war-weary nation prepared for Saturday's historic presidential elections under the threat of further militant attacks.
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Kabul - A fuel tanker rigged as a huge truck bomb was seized on the outskirts of Afghanistan&#39;s southern city of Kandahar on Friday on the eve of landmark elections, a spokesperson for Nato peacekeepers said.
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The military closed down Afghanistan's main roads and cities in a huge security operation in anticipation of violence on the eve of elections.
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Insecurity and intimidation are putting October elections in Afghanistan at risk, a new report says.
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A massive manhunt was underway for three UN foreign election workers whose daylight abduction in Kabul has sparked fears of the start of Iraq-style kidnappings in Afghanistan.