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Afghanistan

By Jon Boone in Kabul

Published: November 3 2008 10:12 | Last updated: November 5 2008 07:38

Support for president-elect Barack Obama among the Afghan politicians and senior officials who attended the US embassy’s election party in Kabul on Wednesday morning was unequivocal.

The president-elect won by a landslide in an unofficial poll carried out at the event, held in a five-star hotel in the city centre that was overrun by Taliban fighters last January.

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