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September 14, 2009

Karzai Accused of Using State Funds to Bribe Elders Ahead of Election
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More accusations have been aired about Afghanistan’s recent presidential
election. Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah claims
incumbent president Hamid Karzai used state resources to engineer the
stealing of the August 20 presidential election. Abdullah says Karzai
bribed tribal elders between $4,000 and $8,000 each to throw the
election to Karzai.



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