{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"\u06a9\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u067e\u0631\u0633","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"EXCLUSIVE: A Video Message to Obama from a Leading Member of the Afghanistan Parliament: &#8217;U.S. Presence is Not Helping&#8217;","author_name":"","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article240293.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article240293.html'\u003EEXCLUSIVE: A Video Message to Obama from a Leading Member of the Afghanistan Parliament: &#8217;U.S. Presence is Not Helping&#8217;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpecial to The BRAD BLOG by David Swanson in Afghanistan... \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nKABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Ramazan Bashardost finished third in 2009\u2019s openly fraudulent presidential election. When the first-place finisher, Hamid Karzai, failed to beg, borrow, or steal 50% plus one he was required to participate in a runoff. When the second-place finisher bowed out, Bashardost was entitled, under the Afghan Constitution, to be in that runoff. It never happened. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nBashardost is currently a Member of Parliament here,&nbsp;(\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}