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The news is starting to hit the media now, isn’t it interesting how–up until this point, they were reporting that Rabanni was the shoe-in?

From Reuters (courtesy ABC):

KABUL (Reuters) - Self-styled Afghan opposition leader Yunus Qanuni was elected president of the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, narrowly beating a former factional leader allied to President Hamid Karzai.

Don’t you just love how that opens? “Self-style Afghan opposition leader Yunus Qanuni”…bwahahahaha!

Qanuni is the ever-popular Northern Alliance leader who the western media has been deriding as a “warlord”. And here we go with “beating a former factional leader allied to President Hamid Karzai”. That would be Rabanni, who the American government has been showering with money. Didn’t work, Rabanni stepped down and threw his support behind Qanuni. An article from Alertnet also from Reuters supports that statement.

Meanwhile, ex-president, Burhanudin Rabbani, announced his backing to Mohammad Yunus Qanooni, leader of the opposition alliance, the National Understanding Front (NUF).

And what’s more is–this was a far greater win than the media dare admit. The next few words are an attempt to depict this as a “close race”:

Qanuni, an ethnic Tajik who came a distant second to Karzai in presidential elections last year, was chosen to lead the 249-seat lower house of parliament with 122 votes against 117 for his closest challenger, Abdul Rabb Rasoul Sayyaf.

Actually, “distant second” is hardly what it was. There were accusations of voter fraud in the Karzai election, which were completely ignored by the press.

Ever faithful to their complaints about “human rights abuses”, they continue their slanted reporting with this:

Qanuni’s election and the fact Sayyaf came a close second, will be a disappointment to human rights groups, who have accused both of links to rights abuses.

And then this at the end.

Woman MP Malalai Joya, an outspoken critic of former warlords who secured assembly seats and has vowed to take them on, was shouted down when she tried to read a statement in that session.

On Monday, Qanuni dismissed concerns about warlords, saying the term was outmoded and the popular vote should be respected, a comment that appeared to underline fears that some MPs would try to block bids to bring war criminals to justice.

Perhaps what they should consider (not in my lifetime, though)-is that the Taliban and Al Qaeda (America’s sworn enemies) were driven out and were the real criminals who perpetrated REAL crimes against the Afghan people. When the Taliban was in power, children weren’t allowed to even fly kites in the street. But now, the Taliban has been given amnesty and have been allowed to participate in the elections, and the border to Pakistan has been opened in order to allow members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban back into the country. Considering that, the announcement in the news today about the US to reduce forces in Afghanistan in 2006 and how Rumsfeld just announced that this reduction won’t effect the ‘hunt for Bin Laden’ is a complete joke! What hunt for Bin Laden? Excuse me, but Mullah Omar and Hekmatyar have been removed from the terrorist watch list–that should tell you something about this war and our willingness to fight it!

What a consistent source of amazement–how the press continues to sympathize with terrorists, undermine national security with cries of human rights violations –only on behalf of the terrorists who saw peoples’ heads off and beat and stone women in the street. In the meantime, mum is the word on Jack Idema and the Americans held at Pulacharke. Un.be.lievable!

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