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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
For the first time since the August 20 presidential election in Afghanistan, the preliminary vote totals now show incumbent1 Hamid Karzai with a percentage high enough to avoid a runoff. But the country's electoral watchdog, backed by the U.N., says it has found "clear and convincing evidence of fraud." It is ordering a partial recount.
Hamid Karzai (file photo)
With more than 91 percent of polling stations tabulated2 Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission says President Hamid Karzai is now the clear leader. The incumbent has 54 percent of valid3 votes - above the absolute majority needed to avoid a second round of balloting5. His closest challenger, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has 28 percent.
The latest preliminary results were released as the Election Complaints Commission ordered a recount of votes from polling stations where it suspects fraud. The ECC, which has a majority of members appointed by the United Nations, says returns must be recounted and audited6 from any polling station where 100 percent turnout was reported or any presidential candidate received more than 95 percent of total votes.
Canadian Grant Kippen is the ECC chairman:
"Well we have no idea how extensive it is," Kippen said. "We believe, based on the investigations8, in decisions that we have already taken but there is some coalition9 based on the criteria10 that we layout on our order and that is why we are asking the Election Commission or ordered the Election Commission to take this action in term of the order in a recount."
Campaign committees for a number of presidential candidates have accused others of stuffing ballot4 boxes or throwing out votes. Many of the most serious complaints allege11 supporters of President Karzai rigged the results at polling stations on Election Day in three provinces - strongholds of the incumbent.
The Taliban had vowed12 to disrupt the election and retaliate13 against voters. But the credibility of the election now appears more vulnerable to the fraud allegations than the lower-than-expected turnout due to insurgent14 violence.
ISAF soldiers secure the site of the car bomb, outside the entrance to the military airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 08 Sep 2009
The latest attack in Kabul blamed on the Taliban took place just outside the military gate at the capital's international airport.
Kabul Police criminal investigations chief Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada says a suicide car bomber15 struck a convoy16 of NATO vehicles at the airport's east gate.
The police official says three civilians17 died and six others were injured as they were passing by on the road.
Also reported injured are two American soldiers and one from Belgium.
NATO, meanwhile, has acknowledged for the first time that Afghan civilians were killed in last week's controversial air strike in Kunduz province. German commanders ordered the strike on two fuel tankers18 believed to have been hijacked19 by the Taliban.
German Chancellor20 Angela Merkel, speaking in Parliament in Berlin, is calling for patience to ascertain21 precisely22 what happened while defending her country's military mission in Afghanistan.
Ms. Merkel says there should be no cover-up and it is also unacceptable to make premature23 judgments24.
A Canadian major general has been appointed to lead NATO's investigation7 into the attack.
An Afghan rights group and others claim dozens of civilians were killed in the air strike. International military officials have said they believed they were targeting a group of 120 insurgents25.
1 incumbent | |
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平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓 | |
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劫持( hijack的过去式和过去分词 ); 绑架; 拦路抢劫; 操纵(会议等,以推销自己的意图) | |
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判断( judgment的名词复数 ); 鉴定; 评价; 审判 | |
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