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The top officials of more than half of Afghanistan's district election offices will be replaced to prevent fraud in a second-round presidential election critical to the country's credibility and foreign support. The UN said 200 out of 380 district election chiefs from the government-appointed commission were fired.
Americans are evenly and deeply divided over whether President Barack Obama should send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and public support for his handling of the war has taken a fall, according to a Washington Post-ABC News public opinion poll released yesterday. Forty-seven percent of those polled favor a troop buildup , while 49 percent oppose it and a majority on both sides hold their views "strongly," the poll found.
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said yesterday that there was no rift between President Barack Obama's military and civilian advisors on the Afghan war strategy.
