Afghanistan council chooses Karzai to continue leadership
Friday, June 14, 2002
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Backed by the United States, Hamid Karzai overwhelmingly won 18 more months as leader of Afghanistan's fledgling government Thursday, swept into the presidency by an extraordinary grand council of 1,650 Afghans taking tentative steps toward a fragile democracy.
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