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“The Taliban didn’t use all their force in disrupting Afghan elections”

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Published 02 November, 2009, 19:09

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The Taliban had many more possibilities to disrupt the Afghan presidential elections, says Aleksey Malashenko from the Moscow Carnegie Center, but these elections weren’t very important for them.

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