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News Watch September 2005

Sep 30: AFGHANISTAN: Interview with chief electoral officer, Peter Erben, Irin news

Sep 29: Afghan capital wary after suicide blast kills nine, AFP, Lycos News

Sep 28: Outgoing Afghan minister: Govt needs purge, Steve Gutterman, AP, Fort Wayne

Sep 28: AFGHANISTAN: Government dismisses legal poppy cultivation, Irin News

Sep 28: Karzai accepts Jalali resignation, BBC

Sep 28: Nine dead, 28 injured in suicide attack on Afghan army centre, AFX News, Forbes

Sep 27: Afghanistan's Interior Minister Resigns, Matthew Pennington, AP, ABC News

Sep 26: Afghanistan releases partial voting results, Steve Gutterman, AP, The Miami Herald

Sep 26: New beginning and identity for Afghan girl forced to live as a boy, Fayaz Siddiqi, Reuters

Sep 25: Five Dead in U.S. Military Copter Crash, Daniel Cooney, AP, The Guardian

Sep 23: Karzai for change in US tactic against terror, Reuters, Gulf News

Sep 23: Afghan soldier killed, Australian wounded in Afghanistan operations, AFP, Lycos News

Sep 22: 41 percent of Afghan voters were women, Middle East Times

Sep 22: Former Taliban diplomat sentenced, CNN

Sep 21: Launch of the 2005 Afghan Opium Survey, Arrive Net

Sep 21: Taliban vow to step up war after Afghan poll "drama", Reuters

Sep 20: Defying threats, millions vote in Afghanistan, Daniel Cooney, AP, Detroit Online News

Sep 20: Afghan vote success, but threats loom, AP, Fort Wayne

Sep 20: Karzai wants end to U.S-led operations, Daniel Cooney, AP, ABC News

Sep 19: Afghanistan's women move out of the shadows to vote, Deborah Pasmantier, AFP, Middle East Times

Sep 18: Afghanistan proud after largely peaceful vote, AFP, Lycos News

Sep 18: Millions of Afghans vote, defy Taliban threats, David Brunnstrom, Reuters, ABC News

Sep 18: Afghans out to vote despite Taliban raids, Robert Birsel, Reuters, ABC News

Sep 18: Polls close in Afghanistan parliament elections, AFX, ADVFN

Sep 18: Afghans vote in landmark poll, CNN

Sep 16: More troops might go to Afghanistan, Max Blenkin, Townsville Bulletin

Sep 16: Taliban urge Afghans not to vote, warn of violence, Reuters, ABC News

Sep 16: Rebels murder Afghan election candidate, AP, FortWayne

Sep 16: Election campaigning ends, voter education continues, The Muslim News

Sep 16: Facts and figures about Afghanistan's elections, AP, NY Newsday

Sep 15: Pakistan: Close to 400,000 Afghans have returned in 2005, Irin News, Relief Web

Sep 15: Fighting Before Afghan Elections Kills Six, Amir Shah, AP, ABC News

Sep 15: UN warns Afghan democracy imperiled by poor government, AFP, Middle East Times

Sep 14: Afghan women rally for change behind closed doors, Reuters

Sep 13: Afghans Urged to Back Honest Candidates, Amir Shah, AP, ABC News

Sep 13: Day in Afghanistan: Media and comment, BBC

Sep 13: Karzai defends Afghan poll stance as healing bid, Reuters

Sep 12: 21 Afghan election candidates disqualified, AP, USA Today

Sep 12: Afghanistan: Blinded by logistics, Wahidullah Amani, Relief Web

Sep 12: Afghanistan: Parliamentary candidates continue campaigns despite violence, Ron Synovitz, Relief Web

Sep 9: Afghan election faces 4.6 million-dollar shortfall ahead of vote, Relief Web

Sep 9: Former Taliban defies threats in Afghan vote bid, Sayed Salahuddinm, Reuters

Sep 8: Afghanistan Weekly Situation Report 1 - 7 Sep 2005, Relief Web

Sep 7: Bungled car bomb kills four in south Afghanistan, Reuters

Sep 6: Pakistan deploys 9,500 troops at Afghan border, Munir Ahmad, AP, The News Sentinel

Sep 5: Afghan, U.S. forces kill 13 Taliban: governor, Reuters, ABC News

Sep 5: Fears of Afghan violence may spur U.N. departures, Daniel Cooney, Chicago Sun Times

Sep 2: Afghanistan signs refugee Convention, Relief Web

Sep 2: Afghanistan: Electoral observation effort gearing up, Irin News, Relief Web

Sep 1: British engineer kidnapped in western Afghanistan, Reuters

Sep 1: Press Briefing by Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson for the SRSG in Afghanistan, Relief Web

Aug 17: Warlord fears in Afghan elections, Andrew North, BBC