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Karzai rival warns: Vote fraud would doom U.S. involvement
Abdullah Abdullah, the leading challenger in Afghanistan's national elections, warned Monday that if President Hamid Karzai wins another term based on a fraudulent vote, the U.S.-led war against al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan will fail. | 09/14/09 17:03:00 By - Hal Bernton and Jonathan S. Landay
Afghan election panel relaxed fraud rules to avoid runoff
Last week, after it determined that excluding questionable ballots in Afghanistan's August presidential election would force President Hamid Karzai into a runoff, the country's Independent Election Commission voted to allow them to be counted, according to commission and Western officials. This allowed hundreds of thousands of questionable ballots to be included in the results, according to a commission official. | 09/12/09 17:43:00 By - Hal Bernton and Jonathan S. Landay
For reporter, no doubt: 'I'd use the rifle if I had to'
Last Tuesday, Jonathan S. Landay was embedded with a unit of Marine and Army trainers that walked into a carefully laid trap in Afghanistan. "As bullets zapped above and around us," Landay writes, "Fabayo grabbed the wounded Westbrook's M-4 and threw it to me. 'This is your rifle now,' he yelled. Then he turned to fire bursts from his own rifle." | 09/12/09 22:00:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Deadly Afghan ambush shows perils of ill-supplied deployment
An ambush and nearly nine-hour battle in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan that left a sailor and three marines dead illustrated many of the toughest challenges U.S. forces face. Inadequate intelligence and a shortage of helicopters played major roles in the one of the deadliest days for U.S. trainers and Afghan troops. | 09/12/09 22:00:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
U.S. names dead from Tuesday's Afghan ambush
Navy medical corpsman James Layton of Riverbank, Calif., was giving first aid to wounded Marine Lt. Michael Johnson of Virginia Beach, Va., when both were killed by a volley of insurgent bullets. Marine Staff Sgt. Aaron Kenefick of Roswell, Ga., had just radioed that "If we leave this house, the people in the house in front of us will shoot us," when he was killed. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Edwin W. Johnson, Jr. of Columbus, Ga., died with them. | 09/10/09 16:14:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush
The Taliban were waiting as the U.S.-led patrol of American Marines and Afghan police approached the remote village of Ganjgal in far eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday. When the fighting ended hours later, four U.S. Marines, eight Afghan troopers and an Afghan interpreter were dead. McClatchy's Jonathan S. Landay was with them. | 09/08/09 19:14:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Marines walk into insurgent 'trap' in Afghanistan; 4 die
The seven-hour battle took place around the remote hamlet of Gangigal after local elders invited the U.S. and Afghan forces for a meeting. American officers said there was no doubt that they'd walked into a trap. Seven Afghan troops and the Marine commander's interpreter also died. | 09/08/09 10:44:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Military leery of Afghanistan escalation with no clear goals
Military observers, soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan and some top Pentagon officials are warning that dispatching tens of thousands more soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan might not ensure success. The heart of the problem, they say, is that neither Barack Obama's White House nor the Pentagon has clearly defined America's mission in Afghanistan. | 09/07/09 15:20:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef, Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel
Taliban's growth in Afghanistan's north threatens to expand war
Taliban insurgents have taken over parts of two northern provinces from which they were driven in 2001, threatening to disrupt NATO's new supply route from Central Asia and expand a war that's largely been confined to Afghanistan's southern half, U.S. and Afghan officials said. | 08/28/09 14:26:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
U.S. deaths in Afghanistan headed for another record
With the death of four U.S. soldiers Tuesday, the U.S.-led NATO coalition in Afghanistan now has lost more troops this year than in all of 2008, and August is on track to be the deadliest month for American troops there since U.S. operations begain nearly eight years ago. The numbers reflect the rising pace of combat in Afghanistan and come as opinion polls show that a majority of Americans think the war in Afghanistan isn't worth the cost. | 08/25/09 18:57:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan S. Landay
Shackles and blindfold for freed detainee on his way home
A young Afghan held for six years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rejoined his family in southern Kabul late Monday, ending an odyssey that came to symbolize many of the problems of the Bush administration's war on terror detention policies. Mohammed Jawad arrived in Afghanistan shackled and blindfolded, his lawyer said, but ended the day being hugged by relatives after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. He was ordered released by a U.S. judge. | 08/24/09 13:50:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay, Hashim Shukoor and Carol Rosenberg
Guantanamo prisoner detained as teen meets with Karzai
Mohammed Jawad's six-year imprisonment came to symbolize much of what was wrong with the Bush administration's war on terror policies. His confession to throwing a grenade that wounded two American soldiers was ultimately thrown out by a U.S. military judge as coerced by torture. A federal judge last month ordered the U.S. government to release him, saying that without the confession there was no evidence to hold him. His uncle told McClatchy today that no U.S. investigator ever came to talk to him, though his defense attorney came twice. Jawad may have been 14 years old when he was detained. | 08/24/09 05:59:18 By - Jonathan S. Landay and Carol Rosenberg
Observers cautious about declaring Afghan vote a success
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's second-ever presidential election was marred by vote-rigging, voter intimidation and low turnout in many areas and should not be declared a success until the full extent of problems is known, election monitors and other experts said Saturday. | 08/22/09 17:14:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Observers cautious on calling Afghan election a success
Too much is unknown about the extent of vote-rigging, voter intimidation and low turnout in Thursday's presidential balloting to say now that the election was a fair one, observers and other experts said Saturday. They cautioned that the Obama administration's early declaration that the voting was a success risks endorsing a result that Afghans may not see as legitimate. | 08/22/09 16:51:56 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Despite low turnout, Afghan vote declared a success
The Afghan government and the principal opposition candidate declared the country's second presidential election a success Thursday, despite strong indications that Taliban threats and attacks had kept voters at home in southern and eastern Afghanistan. | 08/20/09 17:30:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay and Hashim Shukoor
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