&#39;Warlords&#39; Threaten Afghan Polls - Rights Group
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Regional and factional leaders pose as much of a threat to Afghanistan&#39;s elections as a Taliban insurgency, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai&#39;s removal of a warlord governor in western Afghanistan ransacked UN compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday.
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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 poll also was marred by violence, as militants ambushed police escorting boxes of ballots, killing three officers in the deadliest direct assault on the landmark post-Taliban vote, a senior official said...
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Afghan authorities arrested 60 Taliban  guerrillas who were planning to derail the upcoming  presidential election, officials said Saturday, as campaigning  intensified for the poll in a week's time.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A convoy carrying the running mate to Afghan President Hamid Karzai came under attack in the northeastern part of the country, just days before landmark elections.
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Afghans have one day left to make up their minds about who to vote for as their country's first elected president even though threats of violent reprisals by Taliban militants may deter some from casting their ballots.
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Leaders of an Afghan tribe tell its members to vote for Hamid Karzai or their houses will be burned down.
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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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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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Presidential campaigning in Afghanistan is shadowed by a new insurgent group plan for disruptions.
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The Afghan rebels had threatened violence to disrupt Saturday's elections, but failed to deliver.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban movement suffered a serious psychological and military setback after failing to disrupt Afghanistan's presidential election last month, but the radical Islamic militia still poses a formidable military threat, and one faction has begun carrying out daring, al Qaeda-style urban terrorist attacks, according to Afghan and foreign analysts.
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Regional and factional leaders pose as  much of a threat to Afghanistan's elections as a Taliban  insurgency, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
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KABUL: A leading rights group urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to sideline warlords implicated in rights abuses and strengthen his governmentâs commitment to improving security and the rule of law when he announces a new cabinet after
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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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The group that claimed responsibility for the abduction of three UN workers in Afghanistan threatened today to kill the captives unless Nato and Afghan troops call off their search.
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US-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.