Tuesday, December 07, 2004
FIRST POPULARLY ELECTED AFGHAN PRESIDENT SWORN IN (LvM):
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 7 -- Three years after the fall of the Taliban, Hamid Karzai was sworn in Tuesday as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president in a dignified, heavily guarded ceremony attended by hundreds of Afghan and foreign guests, including Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
In a brief inaugural address, Karzai expressed his thanks to the Afghan people, who defied Taliban threats to vote in largely peaceful national elections in October, and to the United States, which led the international coalition that ousted the Islamic fundamentalist regime in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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