Fired UN Official Peter Galbraith Accuses the United Nations Of Helping Cover Up Electoral Fraud Committed By Afghan Presiden

by via Democracy Now

Mon, Oct 5, 2009 7:49AM

Monday, October 5, 2009 :Last week United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon fired the top American diplomat at the United Nations in Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith. Galbraith had accused his boss at the UN mission in Afghanistan, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide, of helping cover up electoral fraud and being biased in favor of Hamid Karzai. Galbraith has described the Afghan election as a "foreseeable train wreck" and says the election has "handed the Taliban its greatest strategic victory in eight years of fighting the United States and its Afghan partners."

Peter Galbraith, was the top American diplomat at the United Nations in Afghanistan. He served as deputy special representative of the United Nations in Afghanistan from June until he was fired last week by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. He was the first US ambassador to Croatia and a staff member of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for several years. He has written extensively on Iraq, his books are “The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End” and Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America"s Enemies"

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