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Posted: November 1, 2009 at 6:37 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “The election will be held and all procedures will go as normal,” Noor Mohammad Noor, spokesman for the Afghan election commission, after presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah’s campaign manager said he would withdraw in a bid to postpone the runoff
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