World ; Afghan leader Karzai sworn in under US smiles
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&quot;This is Afghanistan&#39;s best opportunity to establish a reform-oriented government,&quot; said Andrew Wilder of the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit think tank.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has congratulated Hamid Karzai for his victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election. Mr Karzai, who has been head of Afghanistan&#39;s interim administration since the Taliban
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DEAR readers, the day has finally arrived, when Afghanistan saw the installation of its first democratically elected president. Hamid Karzai has a new face today: he is not an imposed
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United States Vice President, Dick Cheney, has hailed the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai as an historic day and has praised the US role in bringing democracy to the country.
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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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Vice President Dick Cheney will lead a US delegation to attend the Dec. 7 inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Cheney&#39;s office said Thursday.
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Hamid Karzai formally accepted his election as president of Afghanistan Thursday, a day after a joint UN-Afghan electoral board proclaimed him the victor in the October 9 vote, and said he would not condone the existence of &quot;private militia forces
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai was officially declared Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever popularly elected president today after a weeks-long fraud probe found no reason to overturn his landslide victory.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Tuesday as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld.
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Afghan and U.S.-led forces placed Kabul  under tight security ahead of Tuesday's swearing in of  President Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan's first popularly elected  leader, as the Taliban threatened to disrupt the ceremony.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Tuesday as  Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a  ceremony attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense  Minister Donald Rumsfeld.
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takes an oath together with Vice President Ahmad Zia Masoud (L) and Vice President Abdul Karim Khalili during the inauguration in Kabul&#39;s Presidential Palace, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004.
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The first freely elected president in Afghanistan&#39;s 5,000-year history took the oath of office here today. &quot;Nothing makes me more hopeful to the future
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Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president amid tight security. There had been fears that supporters of the previous Taliban ruling regime would attempt to sabotage the ceremony in Kabul.
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Exactly three years after the American-led overthrow of the Taliban, Hamid Karzai was inaugurated as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president yesterday, to the evident satisfaction of the Bush administration.
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Though the Afghanistan&#39;s new head of the state Hamid Karzai easily swept the Oct. 9 presidential elections and took oath as first-elected national leader Tuesday
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The leader of Afghanistan&#39;s interim government, Hamid Karzai, has been officially declared the winner of last month&#39;s presidential election.