 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main political rival has accused him of undermining the battle against the Taliban.
Abdullah Abdullah -- who dropped out of the presidential runoff race against Karzai -- described the president's recent behavior as erratic. "As a former colleague and doctor, I think this is beyond a normal attitude," Abdullah, a former foreign minister, told reporters in Kabul on Friday.
The remakes come one day after Karzai blamed the UN and US-led community for the controversy over last year's disputed election. | A fair accusation, because it's true. |
On Thursday, Karzai blamed foreigners for what he called widespread fraud during the 2009 presidential election in order to tarnish his victory.
| I'm sure the fraud was locally manufactured. But the supervisors fail to credit the locals with choosing ballot fraud over bullets to swing the count. This is a major step toward desire for the rule of law. |
The Afghan president also accused "some embassies" of trying to bribe the electoral commission members by trying to give them armored vehicles.
| That's believable, too. Not all the countries involved in this are as pure as they'd have us think. |
While Afghanistan's Independent Electoral Commission declared Karzai the winner of the August 20 vote, the UN-backed watchdog committee threw out nearly one-third of his votes, forcing him into a runoff with Abdullah.
Karzai's outburst on Thursday came just days after a fence-mending trip by US President Barack Obama
| So that's what they're calling it nowadays. |
to Kabul and exposes Kabul's rift with West. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Karzai's harsh words about the US and its allied counties are "genuinely troubling." |