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U.S. Critic of Karzai Is Fired From U.N. Mission

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The UN deputy special representative for Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith- and the highest American official there who was also an advisor to Richard Holbrooke, the US representative for South Asia- resigned over differences with his Norwegian boss the Un Representative over the Afghan elections. The issue was whether to take a softer stand on the elections or to confront the Karzai government with evidence of fraud in the elections.

The questions of fraud and vote rigging in the Afghanistan elections.

10/01/2009

Missing from the media coverage is how on Septemeber 29, Un Represetnative Eide and Hillary Clinto announced that Karzai had won the election, when upto that point the question was whether there would be a runoff between him and his opponent Abdullah after vote recounts. Because winter snow would make holding the elections difficult unless done quickly, there were questions about whether they would be held.

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