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I asked Peter Galbraith, the deputy head of the United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan who was deposed for supporting a more rigorous U.N. role in opposing vote fraud in the August 20 elections, what he thought about Abdullah Abdullah’s withdrawal from the runoff. “Abdullah did the right thing,” he told me in an email from [...]

Tell me if this makes sense to you. During the Aug. 20 Afghan presidential election, thousands of polling stations either didn’t open to the public or didn’t host election monitors, which allowed election fraud to become so widespread that a full one-third of the votes for incumbent president Hamid Karzai were ultimately invalidated. Conflict over [...]

As indicated yesterday, President Hamid Karzai has embraced a runoff presidential election in a Kabul press conference. The Afghan election commission has set the vote date for Nov. 7. Adam Serwer tweets that deposed deputy U.N. special representative Peter W. Galbraith, who was fired for urging a firmer U.N. stance against fraud, must be “doing [...]

ThinkProgress has the video from “Good Morning America,” in which the ousted deputy U.N. special representative to Afghanistan says that the stolen election has unmoored U.S. strategy for Afghanistan to such a point that increasing troop levels doesn’t make sense. TP’s transcript:
In the absence of having a credible Afghan partner … it makes no sense [...]

Fired deputy U.N. special representative to Afghanistan Peter Galbraith publishes an absolutely scathing op-ed in The Washington Post accusing the United Nations of passivity that amounts to complicity in election fraud that, he writes, “handed the Taliban its greatest strategic victory in eight years of fighting the United States and its Afghan partners.”
The U.N. has [...]

Ambassador Peter Galbraith, recently sacked from the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan over his rejection of the mission’s stance on fraud in the Afghan presidential election, takes issue with spokesman Farhan Haq’s statement to me that Galbraith’s firing “takes the focus away” from dealing with election fraud. Haq’s statement is “absurd,” Galbraith wrote in an [...]

More fallout from U.S. Ambassador Peter Galbraith’s abrupt firing from the United Nations mission in Afghanistan. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq confirms that an aide to the mission’s political-affairs section, which Galbraith headed before being fired yesterday over loudly protesting what he saw as U.N. acquiescence to election fraud in Afghanistan, has resigned in solidarity.
Haq said [...]

As you’ve read, yesterday the U.N. mission in Afghanistan abruptly fired its deputy director for political affairs, Peter Galbraith, the longtime American human-rights gadfly diplomat. Galbraith got sacked for the absurdity of speaking out against fraud in an election the U.N. mission helped sponsor. And now the United States is in a tight spot: the [...]

Don’t worry America, Sweden is with you in Afghanistan. The surge is on.
Sweden wants to send more troops to Afghanistan after an assessment by the Armed Forces concluded that the current force of 500 soldiers is too small.
The Swedish military wants instead to boost the number of troops on the ground in Afghanistan [...]

According to The New York Times, Ambassador Peter Galbraith, the top U.S. official on the United Nations’ Afghanistan mission, has been fired after urging his colleagues — and especially his boss Kai Eide — to take a harder line on addressing the election fraud that marred last month’s presidential election. It’s hard to improve on [...]