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| Extra-Legal Means Will Cost Afghanistan's Support of US: Kerry |
| 2014-07-09 |
[Tolo News] The U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... says any action to take power by extra-legal means will cost Afghanistan the financial and security support of the U.S. "We call on all Afghan leaders to maintain calm in order to preserve the gains of the last decade," he said. "There is no justifiable recourse to violence...or for resort to extra-constitutional measures or threats of the same." In a statement, the U.S. State Department Spokeswoman, Jen Psaki said a full investigation of fraud allegations was needed to ensure confidence in the final outcome. "A full and thorough review of all reasonable allegations of irregularities is essential to ensure that the Afghan people have confidence in the integrity of the electoral process and that the new Afghan president is broadly accepted inside and outside Afghanistan," it said. On Monday, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced preliminary results of the runoff presidential election Monday evening with Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai leading with 56.44 percent. Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... fell behind with 43.56 percent. Monday's results were made up of 100 percent of votes cast across the country. Head of IEC Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani said the total number of voters announced this evening was eight million; exactly 8,109,403. Mr. Ahmadzai led the preliminary results with exactly 4,485,888 votes, with Mr. Abdullah trailing behind with 3,461,639 votes; a difference of exactly 1,024,249 votes between the two candidates. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Hell in that case we should cut off all financial and security support of OUR government. Obastard has been nothing but extra-legal for years. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-07-09 12:12 |
| #2 There he goes again, talking out of somebody else's purse. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-07-09 11:06 |
| #1 any action to take power by extra-legal means will cost Afghanistan the financial and security support of the U.S. I think that decision has already been made, Jawn. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-09 10:12 |