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Abdullah’s campaign manager was quoted last month as prophesying street violence if Abdullah doesn’t conquer, competing that Karzai can’t prevail unless he steals the vote — an accusation similar to those which triggered turbulent protests in Afghanistan’s western neighbor, Iran, afterward President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed victory in the June 12 balloting.
Following an commotion over his remarks, campaign director Abdul Satar Murad said he was misquoted. But the language he purportedly used is about the same Abdullah now employs on the stump.
“If there is not deceit in the election, it is remove for the nation who the winner will be and who the next chancellor will be — if they don’t steal your ballots,” Abdullah told thousands of supporters at Kabul’s cardinal sports stadium above Monday, the last daytime of the two-month movement. Thousands of supporters energetically waved newborn blue flags for Abdullah spoke,
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Murad told The Associated Press afterward that Abdullah’s prognosis of victory is correct, but that he is not stoking violence amid supporters in the case of a detriment.
“Indeed they will not do namely,” Murad said. “They will be seeing the process, and if entities are fair and equitable,
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Peaceful protests, though, are no part of Afghanistan’s history,
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“Unfortunately, in anybody demonstration in Afghanistan’s history, the demonstration comes with violence, and if the result of the election is not attractive for an of the candidates, a nominee that has, say, 30 to 40 percentage of the vote,
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U.S. and NATO military administrators are planning for this likelihood. Most U.S. troops are stationed in the country’s south and eastern, but the Americans have several quick response forces stationed in and nigh Kabul.
If Abdullah supporters trust the election is stolen, they aren’t presumable to go file protests with the country’s Electoral Complaints Commission, for they will view the body as an arm of Karzai’s government,
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“Some offended mobs may smash things up, even onset people, but I don’t consider it’s working to be too widespread, and I don’t calculate it would be also long-lasting,” Dempsey said.
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