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Warlords With Dark Pasts Battle in Afghan Election

By ROD NORDLANDFEB. 26, 2014

 

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Ashraf Ghani, the apparent front-runner in the Afghan presidential race this year, was once unstinting in his opinion of one of the country’s most prominent warlords, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, calling him a “known killer.”