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Afgans Vote in Large Numbers Despite Taliban Threats and Attacks; Hamid Karzai's Chosen Successor Unlikely to Make it to the RunoffMaybe some small amount of good news. Maybe. Things have a tendency to find their way to new awfulnesses. Afghan voters turned out in large numbers Saturday for historic presidential and provincial elections, undeterred by the threat of violence by the Taliban and poor weather. Karzai had backed a candidate named Rassoul. Karzai had gone so far as to ask his own brother to back out of the race, to clear a path for Rassoul. It will take weeks to count the votes (and rule on all the allegations of fraud), but a sampling from 100 key polling places seems to indicate the public has had enough of the Karzai regime. Former World Bank executive Ashraf Ghani and opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah appeared to be the two front-runners in Afghanistan's presidential election, sidelining a candidate viewed as President Hamid Karzai's favorite, according to partial results tallied by news organizations and one candidate. Based on very little information at all, I'm pulling for Abdullah: Both Mr. Ghani and Mr. Abdullah ran against Mr. Karzai in the 2009 election. Mr. Abdullah, 54, a former aide to anti-Taliban Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, came in second at the time with 30.6%. Massoud, you might remember, was the Northern Alliance commander who was assassinated by bomb just before 9/11, on September 9, 2001. It was theorized back then that this was a prepatory move by the Taliban, knowing that the US attack which would surely follow would probably involve first making common cause with the Northern Alliance. I don't know if those speculations have held up, or if the Taliban's assassination was just coincidental in time. Apparently Abdullah has a shot at winning because he's partly Pashtun (Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group) and speaks Pashto better than Rassoul-- who despite being Pashtun himself, grew up in a Persian-speaking area. Oh, both Abdullah and Ghani have former (?) warlords for running mates. I guess that's just Afghanistan.
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