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/ 12 September 2009
One Western diplomat told the New York Times that Karzai’s men set up hundreds of fictitious polling stations.
Streets in Afghanistan were mainly quiet and tense early on Thursday as Afghans headed to the polls for an anxiously awaited presidential election.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets the Afghans whose fortunes lie in the risky, but lucrative, business of arms dealing.