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To: Brumar89 who wrote (558783)	4/5/2010 10:43:33 AM
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Karzai outburst over Obama visit troubling: +++++++++++++++ WASHINGTON – The United States Friday rejected President Hamid Karzai's anti-foreigner outburst as "troubling" and "preposterous," prompting a hurried effort by the Afghan leader to make amends. >>Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivered a speech at the Election Commission office in Kabul, on April 1. Karzai told election workers there had been 'vast fraud' in the Aug. 20 ballot but that it was not committed by Afghans. AP/Rafiq Maqbool << Officials said Karzai did not specifically apologize during a telephone conversation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but expressed "surprise" at the furor over his claim that foreigners orchestrated election fraud. The row came just a few days after President Barack Obama made a secret trip to Kabul to press Karzai on tackling corruption and to demand progress on good governance, as his troop surge strategy unfolds against the Taliban. The new confrontation will only raise doubts about the fragile relationship between the Obama administration and Karzai, whom Washington is forced to consider a partner, despite distaste for his political record. The first public signs of several hours of intense US-Afghanistan diplomacy Friday first emerged when Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs called Karzai's comments "cause for real and genuine concern." worldtribune.com