Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) talks NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer during a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on June 17, 2009. Afghanistan's intelligence agency on June 17 freed two local Al-Jazeera journalists held for three nights, one of whom President Hamid Karzai said had produced a story 'in favour of terrorism'. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) had on Sunday detained, without explanation, an English service producer and an Arabic service producer for the Doha-based satellite station. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) talks NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer during a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on June 17, 2009. Afghanistan's intelligence agency on June 17 freed two local Al-Jazeera journalists held for three nights, one of whom President Hamid Karzai said had produced a story 'in favour of terrorism'. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) had on Sunday detained, without explanation, an English service producer and an Arabic service producer for the Doha-based satellite station.

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  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.
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  12. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) listens to Latvian President Valdis Zatlers during a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga.

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