KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 3: Afghan President Hamid Karzai attends a press conference at the Presidential Palace on November 3, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Re-elected Karzai promised his new government would stop corruption and engage with Taliban insurgents. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 3: Afghan President Hamid Karzai attends a press conference at the Presidential Palace on November 3, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Re-elected Karzai promised his new government would stop corruption and engage with Taliban insurgents.

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  1. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 28: An Afghan policeman stands guard by a Karzai poster after tensions in city remain high after a suicide bomb attack on an international guest house October 28, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban militants killed six U.N. foreign staff in the early morning assault raising serious issues about security before the Presidential run-off election in less tham two weeks time. Rockets were also fired at a the Serena hotel but no injuries were reported.
  2. A poster of legendary assassinated Afghan mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud is displayed next to one portraying President Hamid Karzai at a Kabul cinema while a worker sets up scaffolding on September 28, 2009. Afghans considered Massoud a national hero who waged battle against Soviets and Talibans while Karzai awaits final result of the poll recounts of the August 20 presidential elections the second such election in the war-torn nation's history and one held amid a vicious Taliban insurgency against the Western-backed government which deterred voters.
  3. Daily wages laborers stand near an election poster of Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai, center, with first vice president Mohammad Qasim Fahim and second vice president Mohammad Karim Khalili, right, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. The U.N. is warning that violence in Afghanistan could increase after the results from the country's disputed presidential election are finally tallied and disclosed. Preliminary results from the Aug. 20 vote show President Hamid Karzai with 54.6 percent.
  4. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 17: President Hamid Karzai arrives to speak to the media for the first time since full preliminary results were announced at the Presidential palace on September 17, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Immediately after the President delivered his election message to the international media, Italian soldiers, who have stationed 2,800 soldiers in the region, suffered their deadliest attack in Afghanistan to date. Six Italian soldiers and ten Afghans were killed, including 55 wounded as the blast hit in a mostly residential area of the city. While Karzai stated today that some government officials were biased toward him in the election, he defended himself and the integrity of the vote against all the allegations of fraud and ballot box stuffing. Presently Karzai has 54.6 percent of the vote, well ahead of his leading challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. The ongoing recounts and fraud investigations by the Election Complaints commission (ECC), however, could drive Karzai's total below the crucial 50 percent, forcing a runoff election.
  5. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 17: President Hamid Karzai speaks to the media for the first time since full preliminary results were announced at the Presidential palace on September 17, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Immediately after the President delivered his election message to the international media, Italian soldiers, who have stationed 2,800 soldiers in the region, suffered their deadliest attack in Afghanistan to date. Six Italian soldiers and ten Afghans were killed, including 55 wounded as the blast hit in a mostly residential area of the city. While Karzai stated today that some government officials were biased toward him in the election, he defended himself and the integrity of the vote against all the allegations of fraud and ballot box stuffing. Presently Karzai has 54.6 percent of the vote, well ahead of his leading challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. The ongoing recounts and fraud investigations by the Election Complaints commission (ECC), however, could drive Karzai's total below the crucial 50 percent, forcing a runoff election.
  6. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 17: President Hamid Karzai speaks to the media for the first time since full preliminary results were announced at the Presidential palace on September 17, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Immediately after the President delivered his election message to the international media, Italian soldiers, who have stationed 2,800 soldiers in the region, suffered their deadliest attack in Afghanistan to date. Six Italian soldiers and ten Afghans were killed, including 55 wounded as the blast hit in a mostly residential area of the city. While Karzai stated today that some government officials were biased toward him in the election, he defended himself and the integrity of the vote against all the allegations of fraud and ballot box stuffing. Presently Karzai has 54.6 percent of the vote, well ahead of his leading challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. The ongoing recounts and fraud investigations by the Election Complaints commission (ECC), however, could drive Karzai's total below the crucial 50 percent, forcing a runoff election.
  7. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 17: President Hamid Karzai arrives to speak to the media for the first time since full preliminary results were announced at the Presidential palace on September 17, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Immediately after the President delivered his election message to the international media, Italian soldiers, who have stationed 2,800 soldiers in the region, suffered their deadliest attack in Afghanistan to date. Six Italian soldiers and ten Afghans were killed, including 55 wounded as the blast hit in a mostly residential area of the city. While Karzai stated today that some government officials were biased toward him in the election, he defended himself and the integrity of the vote against all the allegations of fraud and ballot box stuffing. Presently Karzai has 54.6 percent of the vote, well ahead of his leading challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. The ongoing recounts and fraud investigations by the Election Complaints commission (ECC), however, could drive Karzai's total below the crucial 50 percent, forcing a runoff election.
  8. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 17: President Hamid Karzai points as he speaks to the media for the first time since full preliminary results were announced at the Presidential palace on September 17, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Immediately after the President delivered his election message to the international media, Italian soldiers, who have stationed 2,800 soldiers in the region, suffered their deadliest attack in Afghanistan to date. Six Italian soldiers and ten Afghans were killed, including 55 wounded as the blast hit in a mostly residential area of the city. While Karzai stated today that some government officials were biased toward him in the election, he defended himself and the integrity of the vote against all the allegations of fraud and ballot box stuffing. Presently Karzai has 54.6 percent of the vote, well ahead of his leading challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. The ongoing recounts and fraud investigations by the Election Complaints commission (ECC), however, could drive Karzai's total below the crucial 50 percent, forcing a runoff election.
  9. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Sian Goodenough, fiance of Lance Corporal Adam Drane from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, lowers her head as his coffin passes mourners lining the High Street on December 15, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. The 23-year-old was shot dead by Taliban insurgents at a checkpoint near Nad-e Ali, in Helmand province and was the 100th British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year. His repatriation to nearby RAF Lyneham came on the day it was feared that thousands of jobs could be lost as the Defence Secretary prepares to announce spending cuts needed to fund new Chinook helicopters for the conflict. While in Afghanistan itself, the first of 500 extra British troops to be deployed arrived in the country.
  10. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Sian Goodenough (L), fiance of Lance Corporal Adam Drane from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, weeps as his coffin passes mourners lining the High Street on December 15, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. The 23-year-old was shot dead by Taliban insurgents at a checkpoint near Nad-e Ali, in Helmand province and was the 100th British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year. His repatriation to nearby RAF Lyneham came on the day it was feared that thousands of jobs could be lost as the Defence Secretary prepares to announce spending cuts needed to fund new Chinook helicopters for the conflict. While in Afghanistan itself, the first of 500 extra British troops to be deployed arrived in the country.
  11. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Sian Goodenough (L), fiance of Lance Corporal Adam Drane from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, weeps as his coffin passes mourners lining the High Street on December 15, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. The 23-year-old was shot dead by Taliban insurgents at a checkpoint near Nad-e Ali, in Helmand province and was the 100th British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year. His repatriation to nearby RAF Lyneham came on the day it was feared that thousands of jobs could be lost as the Defence Secretary prepares to announce spending cuts needed to fund new Chinook helicopters for the conflict. While in Afghanistan itself, the first of 500 extra British troops to be deployed arrived in the country.
  12. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Sian Goodenough, fiance of Lance Corporal Adam Drane, from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, watches his coffin pass mourners lining the High Street on December 15, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. The 23-year-old was shot dead by Taliban insurgents at a checkpoint near Nad-e Ali, in Helmand province and was the 100th British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year. His repatriation to nearby RAF Lyneham came on the day it was feared that thousands of jobs could be lost as the Defence Secretary prepares to announce spending cuts needed to fund new Chinook helicopters for the conflict. While in Afghanistan itself, the first of 500 extra British troops to be deployed arrived in the country.
  13. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Sian Goodenough, fiance of Lance Corporal Adam Drane, from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, watches his coffin pass mourners lining the High Street on December 15, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. The 23-year-old was shot dead by Taliban insurgents at a checkpoint near Nad-e Ali, in Helmand province and was the 100th British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year. His repatriation to nearby RAF Lyneham came on the day it was feared that thousands of jobs could be lost as the Defence Secretary prepares to announce spending cuts needed to fund new Chinook helicopters for the conflict. While in Afghanistan itself, the first of 500 extra British troops to be deployed arrived in the country.
  14. Rescue workers remove a body from the site of a car bomb attack in the Pakistani town of Dera Ghazi Khan December 15, 2009. A car bomb near the home of a Pakistani provincial government minister killed 20 people on Tuesday, a police official said, in another sign authorities are struggling against Taliban militants bent on grabbing power.
  15. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Sian Goodenough (C), fiance of Lance Corporal Adam Drane from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, weeps as his coffin passes mourners lining the High Street on December 15, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. The 23-year-old was shot dead by Taliban insurgents at a checkpoint near Nad-e Ali, in Helmand province and was the 100th British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year. His repatriation to nearby RAF Lyneham came on the day it was feared that thousands of jobs could be lost as the Defence Secretary prepares to announce spending cuts needed to fund new Chinook helicopters for the conflict. While in Afghanistan itself, the first of 500 extra British troops to be deployed arrived in the country.
  16. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Sian Goodenough (C), fiance of Lance Corporal Adam Drane from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, weeps as his coffin passes mourners lining the High Street on December 15, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. The 23-year-old was shot dead by Taliban insurgents at a checkpoint near Nad-e Ali, in Helmand province and was the 100th British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year. His repatriation to nearby RAF Lyneham came on the day it was feared that thousands of jobs could be lost as the Defence Secretary prepares to announce spending cuts needed to fund new Chinook helicopters for the conflict. While in Afghanistan itself, the first of 500 extra British troops to be deployed arrived in the country.

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