Posts Tagged ‘Washington’

Video : Live Phone Call from Tahrir to Washington DC Protesters

In History, News, Politics on 4 February 2011 tagged #Jan25, Barack Hussein Obama, Cairo, DC, Democracy, egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Husni Mubarak, Liberty Square, Omar Suleiman, protest, Tahrir, Tahrir Square, Twitter, Video, Washington, White House, Youtube with no comments

Feb 1 Protests Outside Embassy of Egypt, Washington

In DC, History, Internet, News, Politics, Twitter on 1 February 2011 tagged #Jan25, Ben Ali, DC, egypt, Embassy of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Jeddah, Omar Suleiman, Saudi Arabia, Van Ness, Washington, Washington D.C., Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali with no comments

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Video : Hamid Karzai on Farid Zakaria GPS, ‘I’m Known for Consensus’

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, News, Opinion, pakistan, Politics, TV, War on 26 October 2009 tagged Admiral Mullen, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CNN, Department of State, Development, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, Fareed Zakaria, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Gordon Brown, GPS, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John Kerry, Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, Maulavi Mustafa Barakzai, Minister of Foreign Affairs, NATO, New York Times, pakistan, Pashtun, Presidential Election, rahm emanuel, Reconstruction, Richard Holbrooke, run-off, runoff, runoff election, September 11, Shakespeare, Special Envoy, suicide bomb, taliban, Thomas Friedman, Turkey, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Video, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, war on terror, Washington, Waziristan, World Bank, Zakaria GPS with 1 comment

Hamid Karzai says that all parties involved have had made mistakes over the past 8 years and speaks well about wanting to make the best decisions for a nation in the situation that Afghanistan is in, which are all fairly by the book positions for an unpopular President facing charges of illegitimacy at home and [...]

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah Comments on Joining Karzai Administration, Makes Demands of Run-off

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 23 October 2009 tagged Afghanistan, BBC, CNN, Department of State, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, Golden Age, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John King, Kabul, Kai Eide, NATO, Pashtun, Presidential Election, Richard Holbrooke, run-off, runoff, runoff election, Special Envoy, State of the Union, taliban, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, Washington with no comments

With not much time until the November 07 run-off, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah has already begun speaking about the logistics of the run-off and chances of him once again serving under a Karzai Administration, should the President be officially re-elected in a legitimate, fair, and transparent election: He won’t join Karzai’s government if the incumbent wins [...]

Transcript of Christiane Amanpour’s Interview With Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Runoff

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, fame, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, Twitter, War on 20 October 2009 tagged #Afghanelection, Afghan election, Afghanistan, change, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Democracy Now, Department of Defense, Department of State, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, General Scott Gration, Golden Age, Hague, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John Kerry, Kabul, Kai Eide, Mohammed Zahir Shah, NATO, Pashtun, Peter Galbraith, Presidential Election, Richard Holbrooke, runoff, runoff election, Special Envoy, Sudan, taliban, Twitter, U.S. Institute of Peace, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Video, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, Washington, Zahir Shah with no comments

In absence of the video of this interview, I located the transcript from last night’s interview between CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. Perhaps I am looking too much into it, but notice how much Dr. Abdullah referred to ‘change’ in his statements about his vision for Afghanistan. I don’t think it is necessarily [...]