{"id":2833,"date":"2009-08-17T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2009-08-19T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:08:04","slug":"karzis-re-election-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/17\/karzis-re-election-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Karzai&#8217;s re-election bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan President Hamid Kazai&#8217;s re-election bid will be decided this week.\u00a0 Polls are <a title=\"predicting a win\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/gc05\/idUSTRE57G2O020090817\" target=\"_blank\">predicting a win<\/a>, but not necessarily with an outright majority to avoid a run-off election with former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Nick Mills\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/nick_b_mills.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Mills<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan<\/em>,&#8221; can comment.\u00a0 He&#8217;s know Karzai since the 1980s when Mills ran Boston University&#8217;s USIA-funded Afghan Media Project.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Nick Mills, 617-353-3492, <a href=\"mailto:nmills@bu.edu\">nmills@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan President Hamid Kazai&#8217;s re-election bid will be decided this week.\u00a0 Polls are predicting a win, but not necessarily with an outright majority to avoid a run-off election with former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of &#8220;Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,&#8221; can comment.\u00a0 He&#8217;s know Karzai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[116,1596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}