12-07-2004, 11:48 AM
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Serenity Now
Join Date: Mar 2003
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This Should be Getting Lots More Attention
- Karzai Sworn In as Afghan President
By John Lancaster
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, December 7, 2004; 6:30 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 7 -- Three years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan's first popularly elected president, Hamid Karzai, was sworn in Tuesday in a dignified, heavily guarded ceremony attended by hundreds of Afghan and foreign guests, including Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
In a brief inaugural address, Karzai expressed his thanks to the Afghan people, who defied Taliban threats to participate in largely peaceful national elections in October, and to the United States, which led the international coalition that ousted the Islamic fundamentalist regime in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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