"There were even reports of local Taliban members encouraging people to register and support them at the polls in August."
Please keep that one-day wonder in mind, and ask yourself why they would do what the lying, war-promoting, Muslim-hating, false-flag covering, agenda-pushing AmeriKan MSM unceasingly accuses?
Related: Afghanistan: Violence and the Vote
And consider this:
"It is foolishness to look at “militant Islamists” and the CIA Special Forces teams who are sent in to fight them as two separate entities, without realizing that they are one and the same. In Central Asia, the scary “Islamists” appear, as if by magic, wherever the oil companies have an interest."
Which brings me back to my Boston Globe:
"Taliban terrorism won’t affect vote, Karzai says; 7 killed, 91 hurt in suicide car bomb attack" by Carlotta Gall and Sangar Rahimi, New York Times | August 16, 2009
Why would it? Why would there be any?
KABUL, Afghanistan - A huge car bomb exploded in the center of the capital yesterday morning, killing seven people and wounding 91. The suicide car bomb struck just outside the NATO force’s headquarters and the Ministry of Transportation, a block from the American Embassy.
The blast occurred in one of the city’s most heavily guarded streets, which runs between the US Embassy and the presidential palace. The embassy is about 100 yards from the site of the explosion, but heavy barriers and blast walls protect it from the street. The palace is about 200 yards away in the opposite direction....
The brunt of the casualties was borne by civilian workers at the Transportation Ministry and Afghan army guards at the entrance to the NATO headquarters where General Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of the coalition forces, has his offices. The Defense Ministry said seven people were killed, all civilians. The bodies of four Afghans, three of them government workers and one a passer-by, were taken to the city’s military hospital. A male civilian died of wounds in another city hospital, a doctor there said. It was not clear where the remaining two were. The wounded included some 16 Afghan soldiers and a member of Parliament, Hawa Alam Nuristani, officials said. At the main civilian hospital nearby, 57 civilians were treated, most of them government workers from the Ministry of Transportation.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the blast. “One of our suicide bombers in a Surf vehicle packed with 500 kilograms of explosives targeted the ISAF headquarters,’’ the spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said by telephone from an undisclosed location, referring to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. “We will continue this kind of operation in the future, and we will accelerate our operations against the Afghan and foreign forces.’’
Called in by phone from an undisclosed location, huh? Yeah, whatever, MSM.
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Now why would the Globe throw up the censoring piece of NYT s*** when they carried this item (as did my Sunday local) on their website? Or am I repeating myself too much re the the BG?
"Insurgents target NATO HQ in Kabul as vote looms" by Robert H. Reid and Rahim Faiez, Associated Press Writers | August 15, 2009
KABUL -- Also Saturday, U.S. Marines pushed deeper into the strategic Helmand province town of Dahaneh for a fourth straight day, meeting fierce Taliban resistance as surface-to-surface missiles and Harrier fighter jets pounded insurgent positions in the surrounding hills.
Amazing how the GLOBE likes to CENSOR the WAR, huh?
I mean, IT HAPPENS FAR TOO MUCH to be a coincidence.
The blast, which occurred about 8:35 a.m. in Kabul's heavily guarded diplomatic quarter, appeared aimed at frightening Afghans against participating in Thursday's presidential election and demonstrating that insurgents can strike whenever and wherever they want.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the explosion, which rattled windows across a wide area of the Afghan capital and sent a huge, mushroom cloud of dense black smoke rising into the blue sky.
This is really starting to stink -- and the censorship isn't helping. Why not put this in my printed paper? For a censored NYT "update?"
It was the biggest insurgent attack in Kabul in six months and shook public confidence in the extensive network of checkpoints and armed guards that maintain security in the city.
Oh, NOW I am REALLY SMELLING INSIDE JOB?
So WHO WAS IT? Some "Al-CIA-Duh" operatives? Maybe some INDIAN INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION? Mossad? British (colonial ties always leave special spy services behind)?
The bomber managed to evade several rings of Afghan police....
Well, gee, HOW in the WORLD could he do THAT with everyone on alert and all because of elections?
After the blast, bloodied and dazed Afghans wandered the street. They included children who congregate outside the NATO gate to sell gum to Westerners. Windows of nearby antique shops and diplomatic residences were shattered and blood smeared the ground....
Yeaaah. I'm OF THE MIND from now on that MUSLIMS WOULDN'T DO THIS to each other, and I SURE AS HELL am NOT BELIEVING some lying, Muslim-hating, Zionist War Daily account!!!!
Oh did I mention that THAT is ALL I CARE ABOUT!?
The WELFARE of the BEAUTIFUL AFGHAN PEOPLE who NEVER DID ANYTHING TO US, and NEVER ASKED for this HELL to be VISITED UPON THEM over a LIE!!!!!!!!????
What my LOCAL CUT (sob):
"I was drinking tea in our office when a big explosion happened," said Abdul Fahim, an Afghan in his mid-20s who suffered leg injuries. "I lay on the ground and then I saw wounded victims everywhere, including police and civilians."
The chief of Kabul's criminal investigation department, Abdul Ghafar Sayadzada, said 600 pounds (272 kilograms) of explosives were used, and that because of the amount he suspected al-Qaida was involved. The attacker passed three police checkpoints, Sayadzada said.
Yeah, "Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
But Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, said a suicide bomber named Ahmadullah from the Bagrami district of Kabul province carried out Saturday's attack....
Oh, well, Zionist media claims some Muslim took credit, and they would never lie to us about Muslims, so.... you, uh, pass that salt shaker please, reader?
Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashery said police were trying to figure out how the insurgents managed to carry out such an attack in one of the most tightly secured areas of the city.
Well, let me.... ah, never mind, MSM.
"They must have used a new tactic to carry out this suicide attack," he said. "What kind of tactic we cannot say until the investigation is over."
Mujahid brushed aside talk of new tactics but said "we have peoples' support with us, the people are helping us to carry out our attacks."
"We have already announced that the people should not participate in the election," he said. "We have announced that the people should not participate in this American process. We are going to block the highways and roads leading to polling centers and attack those polling centers where we see Americans and other foreigners."
The RIVERS of BULLSHIT are ROARING, 'eh, readers?
Then WHY the F*** register people?!
This guy from the "undisclosed location" real?
Is he CALLING from LANGLEY?!!!!!!
In Dahaneh, Marines launched a pre-dawn raid against a Taliban position on the southern edge of the town, storming a fortified compound and then blowing up two towers from which insurgents fired rockets and mortars at U.S. troops the day before. Marines found marijuana plants growing in the courtyard and confiscated trigger plates used to manufacture roadside bombs.
The F***ING OUTRAGEOUS AGENDA-PUSHING and LIES NEVER END!!!
Yeah, DOVETAIL THEM, the California fires, and WHATEVER ELSE YOU CAN with a MARIJUANA STINK!!!
Hey, NEWS MEDIA of AMERIKA, do YOU UNDERSTAND what THIS MEANS?!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I can see WHY they censored and cut this; the LYING PROPAGANDA becomes SO LAUGHABLE (were it not for the DEAD PEOPLE!!!!!!) that NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE IT no matter how much shit is in their skull.
U.S. troops launched an assault on Dahaneh early Wednesday, hoping to disrupt Taliban supply lines in the Now Zad valley and establish Afghan government control over an area held by the Taliban for years.
--more--"And We are working REALLY, REALLY WELL with the Afghans, too!!!
The PHOTO SAYS IT ALL!
A U.S. soldier reacts after a suicide car bomb explosion which occurred near the main gate of NATO's headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Aug. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
"Popular Uzbek commander campaigns for Karzai at rally; Notorious figure may deliver votes for Afghan leader" by Joshua Partlow, Washington Post | August 18, 2009
Last paragraph first, shall we?
KABUL, Afghanistan - Also yesterday, an American civilian working with the military was killed when a patrol was attacked in eastern Afghanistan, and a roadside bomb in the south killed an American military serviceman. At least 22 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan in August as Taliban violence continues to rise.
Yeah, that's NOT REALLY IMPORTANT except as an AFTERTHOUGHT, 'eh, WAR-MONGERING PRESS?
Could it have been THIS GUY ?
Related: Eye on Afghanistan: Why We Must Stay
Obama's Escalations: Afghanistan
Okay, now back to the important stuff: the politics of rigged elections.
One of the nation’s most notorious militia commanders took to the campaign trail for President Hamid Karzai yesterday, another sign of Karzai’s dependence on Afghanistan’s old guard of political musclemen as he seeks reelection this week.
Related: Afghanistan's Mass Graves
Slow Saturday Special: AmeriKa's Mass Grave in Afghanistan
But he is OUR MASS-MURDERER, so....
After months spent living in Turkey to avoid arrest after an altercation with a rival commander, General Abdurrashid Dostum, the leader of an Uzbek militia, held a rally on the last day of the campaign in the northern Afghan city of Shebergan to urge his followers to vote for Karzai. The endorsement from Dostum, who remains popular among Uzbeks despite a record of human rights abuses, could provide a significant late boost to Karzai as he tries to secure a majority in Thursday’s first round of voting.
But Karzai’s reliance on regional commanders such as Dostum has concerned US officials and others who fear that Karzai is too willing to legitimize people with poor human rights records in order to secure votes. Among other allegations, Dostum is accused of allowing hundreds of Taliban prisoners to suffocate to death in shipping containers in 2001....
Watch it for yourse....
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Oh, how VERY INTERESTING!!!!
I was going to say WATCH IT FOR YOURSELF and see what the MSM is NOT TELLING YOU! Nor do they CARE, which tells you a WHOLE LOT!
Analysts estimate that Dostum, who won 10 percent of the vote when he ran for president in 2004, could deliver 400,000 to 600,000 votes, perhaps more than any other regional or ethnic strongman backing Karzai. A leader of Dostum’s political party, Sayed Noorullah Sadat, said that Karzai has not offered Dostum a specific job in a future government but that it is possible Dostum could serve as a governor or Cabinet minister.
Before being placed under house arrest in Kabul and seeking exile in Turkey, Dostum held a largely ceremonial position in the Afghan military. Afghan political observers speculate Dostum is interested in serving as governor of the northern province of Balkh. The current governor, a longtime Dostum rival, has backed Karzai’s main challenger, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.
Karzai has dismayed US officials and human rights activists by steadily gathering around him regional commanders in his campaign for president, including his running mate, Mohammed Fahim. The possibility that such leaders could play a larger role in the next government “does undermine a fair, transparent democratic process in Afghanistan,’’ said Ahmad Nader Nadery, a member of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
“It’s mainly a question of political survival for these leaders who feel there is no other way for them. Through a democratic process they may not be able to hold on to power, so that’s why they try to make these deals,’’ he said. “Of course Afghans want to move on - they don’t want to go back to the same old structures.’’
Afghan officials say they expect that the commanders will demand payback from Karzai if he wins, asking for such things as government jobs or pardons for their jailed associates.
“Everybody who is campaigning for Karzai will ask something from Karzai,’’ said Roshanak Wardak, a Parliament member who opposes Karzai but said she will not vote Thursday because of poor security in her native Wardak Province. “They will not campaign freely. . . . They are corrupt, thieves, criminals.’’
POLITICS!
Also see: Afghans Need Taliban Return
And ONCE AGAIN I get a FLIP-FLOPPER from the Globe!
My PRINTED PAPER:
"Attacks rock Kabul ahead of vote; media restricted" by Fisnik Abrashi, Associated Press Writer | August 18, 2009
KABUL --Insurgents struck the Afghan capital two days before national elections, firing rockets or mortars at the presidential palace and unleashing a suicide car bomber on a NATO convoy. Eight people died, including a NATO soldier, and 55 were wounded in the two attacks, authorities said.
In eastern Afghanistan, two U.S. service members were killed and three wounded in a separate bombing, the U.S. military announced, pushing the death toll this month for the American force to 26. The latest attacks were an ominous sign that the Taliban and their allies are determined to disrupt Thursday's election....
When the LIE is REPEATED and REPEATED and REPEATED you NO LONGER BELIEVE THE LIAR, do you?
In a bid to promote a big voter turnout, the NATO-led military force announced that the more than 100,000 international troops here will refrain from offensive operations on election day, focusing instead on protecting voters.
Well, THANK Allah for SMALL FAVORS!!!!!!!!!
"Our efforts alongside our Afghan security partners will focus on protecting the people of Afghanistan from the insurgents so that the population can freely exercise their right to choose their next president and their provincial representatives," NATO spokesman Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay said.
Fearing that violence may dampen turnout, the Foreign Ministry issued a statement Tuesday asking news organizations to avoid "broadcasting any incidence of violence" between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. on election day "to ensure the wide participation of the Afghan people." The statement did not spell out any penalties for those that do not comply....
Yeah, WHO CARES if they get BLOWN UP on the ALTAR of FRAUDULENT ELECTION in FALSE-FLAG ATTACKS?!! Just STAND IN LINE, Afghan fodder for globalist war criminals!
Despite heightened security in Kabul and other major cities, a series of attacks in the capital has raised doubts that Afghan authorities can guarantee security on election day.
Is this IRAQ or AFGHANISTAN, and does it matter to the empire and its newspapers? They are PLAYING the SAME RECORD on [insert name of next Muslim country due for attack and occupation]
In the Tuesday suicide attack, the bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle as a NATO convoy traveled along a major highway near a British military base on the eastern outskirts of Kabul. The alliance did not specify the nationality of the NATO soldier who was killed.
Two Afghans working for the U.N. were also killed and one was wounded, the U.N. mission here announced. In a statement issued in New York, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "deeply distressed" by news of the attack.
Gee, when U.S. MISSILES are LEVELING AFGHAN VILLAGES I hear NARY a PEEP from this U.N. f***stick, so SHUT THE F*** UP, Ban!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the blast in a telephone conversation with The Associated Press. He said the attack was "part of our routine operations" and not directly linked to the election.
Terrorists can just call AP up and get an answer, huh?
"Muhammad’s phone calls to the news media" were nice chit-chat?
PFFFFFTTT!
British troops guarded the blast site as rescuers rushed the wounded to hospitals. An AP reporter saw British soldiers collecting what appeared to be body parts from the roof of an Afghan home. He also reported shouting matches between British troops and Afghan security personnel at the blast site.
About a dozen private vehicles were destroyed along the road. People used their hands to dig through the rubble of a damaged building searching for survivors. Families carried the wounded away from the scene.
Hours before the suicide attack, militants fired a pair of rockets at the presidential compound in central Kabul.
Who cares about that?
Why did you move away from the rubble, MSM?
At least one round landed in the palace grounds but caused no casualties, Karzai's spokesman Humayun Hamidzada said.
El STINKO!
Karzai is favored to finish first in the Thursday ballot, although a late surge by former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has raised speculation about a possible runoff if the incumbent fails to win more than 50 percent of the votes. Recent polls show Karzai ahead....
Okay, THAT is where my printed paper cut it. WTF?
Elsewhere, a suicide bomber struck the gates of an Afghan army base in the southern province of Uruzgan, killing three Afghan soldiers and two civilians, provincial police chief Juma Gul Himat said.
--more--"Here is the "update":
"As vote nears, bombs rock Kabul; Taliban step up intimidation for low turnout" by Carlotta Gall, New York Times | August 19, 2009
KABUL - The Taliban and the Afghan government escalated a war of attrition and propaganda yesterday, two days before the presidential election, with the Taliban unleashing suicide bombings and a rocket assault at the presidential palace and the government barring news organizations from reporting on election day violence.
The attacks, aimed at the heart of the capital and the workplace of President Hamid Karzai, provided yet another indication of the insurgents’ determination to keep people away from the polls and undermine tomorrow’s election, which has become a critical test for the Afghan government and its foreign backers.
In recent days, the Taliban have issued repeated warnings - the most recent e-mailed to reporters by a spokesman Monday - that they will attack polling stations and punish those who turn out to cast ballots.
Then WHY DID THEY REGISTER PEOPLE?
F*** this NYT j**s*** propaganda hey!!!!!!!!!!!
The insurgents carried out two suicide car bombings and rocket attacks on the capital over the last two days, to create a sense of fear to keep voters at home.
Oh, no WE KNOW WHO WANT S to do that, CUI BONO?
The audacity of the attacks demonstrated the power of the Taliban to intimidate....
Yet the Taliban have been stepping up their campaign against the elections. In an e-mailed statement yesterday, sent by a spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahed, the movement denied that any agreements had been made with the government to allow elections to take place. It described talk of peace deals as a “cunning trick’’ by the government and foreign forces.
Oh, so I'm believing in bullshit again?
Can't somebody from the NSA trace this guy's phone calls?
“The Islamic Emirates now makes clear to the people that the result of this election will never be acceptable,’’ the statement said. “The world community and our fellow countrymen must not see this process as flourishing and as an Afghan process.’’
So sayeth the Taliban leader from his Langley hotel room.
And the PROPAGANDA CONTINUES!
"Credibility is real test in Afghan election; Violence, fraud imperil result at polls today" by Pamela Constable, Washington Post | August 20, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - .... But analysts here said a poisonous confluence of Taliban violence and election fraud, especially in the southern ethnic Pashtun heartland, could render the poll results regionally imbalanced or numerically insufficient. This could provoke public anger and even spark ethnic riots, making it difficult to hold a decisive second poll and creating a power vacuum that would benefit Taliban insurgents.
PFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTT!!!!!
They ALREADY CONTROL most of the country from what it sounds like, what with attacks everywhere.
Meanwhile, the cost to American soldiers continues to rise. On the eve of the balloting, the US military said six more Americans have been killed - putting August on track to become the deadliest month for US forces since the war began in 2001.
Tell it to someone else; I've been screaming about this for years.
Go tell it to President War Criminal!
A peaceful and legitimate outcome is critical to assuage growing doubts among American and European voters about whether Afghanistan is worth a continuing heavy investment in money spent and soldiers’ lives lost. Those doubts were revealed in a
I smell a TERROR EVENT COMING!!!!!!
Western officials, who once demanded free and fair elections, have recently downgraded their expectations and their rhetoric....
The most immediate danger was from Taliban insurgents, who have launched an aggressive campaign to intimidate voters.
Have you HAD ENOUGH of the REPETITIOUS LYING, folks? I have.
In the past week they have staged three major attacks in this heavily policed capital, including the armed invasion of a bank yesterday morning that led to a three-hour gun battle and a suicide bomber detonating himself inside the building....
They think we will believe any s***-splatter they put on their pages? Pfffft!
In the rural southern provinces where the Islamist insurgents are strongest, they have threatened to attack polling stations and kill voters or punish them by cutting off fingers dipped in telltale purple ink after people have cast their ballots.
Oh, is THAT WHY they REGISTERED them and encouraged them to vote?
Despite plans to deploy thousands of army troops, police, and local guards, officials predict that at least 10 percent of 7,000 polling stations across the country will not be safe enough to open....
But the Taliban are only one source of the tension that surrounds this landmark event. The other source is voting fraud. The campaign period has produced numerous allegations of fraud by both government and opposition forces, including the registration of thousands of phantom female voters by their husbands or village elders and the widespread sale of voter identification cards.
Karzai has enlisted the support of a veritable rogue’s gallery of former militia chiefs and regional ethnic bosses, banking on them to deliver large blocs of votes in exchange for promises of future power. All these leaders control men and weapons as well as votes.
Abdullah has been more circumspect in his election alliances and has gained momentum largely through a series of increasingly spirited campaign appearances in which he has called for political change. Polls now show he may win about a quarter of the vote, compared with around 40 percent for Karzai. Two of the other 34 candidates, former planning minister Ramazan Bashardost and former finance minister Ashraf Ghani, are in the single digits. A candidate needs more than 50 percent to win the first round outright.
But despite his mild and diplomatic demeanor, Abdullah has indirectly courted political violence by hinting repeatedly that there is no way Karzai can defeat him without resorting to massive fraud. Some of Abdullah’s supporters have threatened to hold spirited protests if Karzai wins.I'm sorry, readers; I really don't care which U.S. puppet "wins" the "election."
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"Any vote would be victory in Dahaneh" by Alfred de Montesquiou, Associated Press | August 20, 2009
DAHANEH, Afghanistan - .... After four years in the hands of Taliban militants, Dahaneh was stormed in a helicopter-borne assault by a Marine company last week....
The town lies in the country’s south, the heart of the Taliban insurgency, where the fear of militant violence and retribution against citizens who vote could severely dent the turnout in the election and so threaten its legitimacy....
Don't forget the VOTE FRAUD!
Getting people in the district to join the voting process and adhere to the government in faraway Kabul is crucial. The ethnic Pashtun villagers in Helmand live outside any central authority and produce 60 percent of the world’s opium, which is channeled into the drug trade funding the insurgency.
Yeah, that's one of all-time favorite bullshit lies.
Being the Taliban’s heartland, Helmand and other heavily Pashtun provinces in the south have huge importance for the election result. Incumbent president and front-runner Hamid Karzai, himself a Pashtun, needs a strong turnout in the region to boost his chance of reelection. About 40 percent of the Afghan population is Pashtun.
I don't understand: Taliban support Karzai?!
The Marines here are among the 21,000 US forces Obama sent to Afghanistan this year - in part to help secure today’s vote - and they are racing to reclaim territory from militants. In Dahaneh, the Taliban fighters resisted fiercely in days of intense gun battles and bombings before retreating. About 10 militants and one Marine were killed in the fighting.
The rest of the valley remains a front line. Marines control roughly the western part of the district, though thousands of hidden IEDs - improvised explosive devices - make movement perilous.
So are BOMBS dropped from AIRPLANES!
Of course, these ladies are better off without there men, aren't they?
Afghan women voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in a mosque in Kabul, Thursday Aug. 20, 2009. Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence Thursday to choose their next president for a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a feeble government nearly eight years after the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
"26 Afghans killed in election day attacks" by Jason Straziuso and Robert H. Reid, Associated Press Writers | August 20, 2009
KABUL --Taliban threats scared voters and dampened turnout in the militant south Thursday as Afghans voted for president for the second time ever. Insurgents killed 26 Afghans in scattered attacks, but officials said militants failed to disrupt the vote....
Security companies in the capital reported at least five bomb attacks, and Kabul police exchanged fire for more than an hour with a group of armed men; two suicide bombers died in the clash, police said. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed that five gunmen were fighting with police....
Karzai said militants carried out 73 attacks in 15 provinces -- a 50 percent increase in attacks compared with recent days, according to NATO figures. Karzai's ministers of defense and interior said attacks killed eight Afghan soldiers, nine police and nine civilians. A U.S. service member was killed in a mortar attack in the east Thursday, bringing to at least 33 the number of U.S. troops killed this month....
The top U.N. official in the country, Kai Eide, acknowledged scattered attacks but said the election "seems to be working well." A U.N. spokesman said there were no early reports of widespread irregularities, though ahead of the vote the country had buzzed with rumors of ballot-stuffing, bogus registrations and trafficking in voter cards on behalf of Karzai -- allegations his campaign has denied.
Presidential candidate Ramazan Bashardost, who had 10 percent support in pre-election polls, said he washed off the supposedly indelible ink and called on authorities to "immediately stop this election." Barakzai said that if election workers did not shake the ink beforehand it could be wiped off, and that officials fixed the problem early. He said the problem was not widespread.
I EXPECT the U.S to be HOLLERING ABOUT RIGGED ELECTIONS like they did in Iran then!!!!!!!
Militants carried out a string of assaults around the country. In northern Baghlan province, insurgent attacks closed 14 polling sites, and the police chief of Old Baghlan city and several police were killed, said Abdul Malik, the provincial election director. Five Afghan troops died in eastern Khost province.
An AP reporter in southern Helmand province said more than 20 rockets had landed in the capital of Lashkar Gah, including one near a line of voters that killed a child.
That's what AP says. Excuse me for not believing their lying ass. Hey, maybe this is all true (highly unlikely) but the RELATIONSHIP has been SPOILED -- permanently. TOO MANY LIES for WAY TOO LONG, MSM! The fact that they CONTINUE DO NOT HELP!
A blast at a high school in Kabul serving as a polling center wounded an election monitor and briefly shut down voting....
In fact, I even question who is firing rockets.
In the Helmand province town of Dahaneh -- a former Taliban stronghold until U.S. troops invaded this month -- U.S. Marines delivered presidential ballots in two helicopters just after noon. Fifty of 74 registered voters cast ballots.
Oh, THAT'S NICE! Hope the TAX EXPENSE was worth it, America.
Voter turnout in the insurgency-plagued Pashtun south is not only crucial to Karzai's chances but also to public acceptance of the results. Karzai is widely expected to run strong among his fellow Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group that also forms the overwhelming majority of the Taliban.
Yeah, ISN'T THAT ODD?!
And the TALIBAN REGISTERING VOTERS? I think that says NO KARZAI!
Are we looking at VOTER SUPPRESSION here like in the UNITED STATES with the BLACKS?
Karzai has sought to ensure his re-election by striking alliances with regional power brokers, naming as a running mate a Tajik strongman and welcoming home notorious Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum.
And we know who he is; how come no qualifying quote as a mass-murder, MSM?
If it were Ahmadinejad I'm sure they would work in something about Israel's destruction.
