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Karzai inaugurated while violence continues in Afghanistan

Published: 20 November, 2009, 07:07
Edited: 20 November, 2009, 14:19


US and Afghan security forces gather at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on November 13, 2009 (AFP Photo / Massoud Hossaini)

While the Afghan leader’s inauguration went ahead in the capital, elsewhere in the country violence continued with the death of two American serviceman and ten civilians. Can Hamid Karzai really arrest this situation?

 
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The fruits of NATO intervention.

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