Peter Graff
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Position: Bureau Chief, Afghanistan
Reuters Afghanistan Bureau Chief Peter Graff has reported from more than two dozen countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, the ex-Soviet Union and the Middle East. He took up his post in Kabul in April, 2009, after a stint in Baghdad as deputy bureau chief, Iraq. From 2002-07 he was based in London. A Russian speaker, Peter joined Reuters in Moscow in 1998. He was based in Nairobi from 1996-98 covering Africa for Time Magazine and The Boston Globe, and in Tbilisi from 1994-96, covering Chechnya and the Caucasus for AFP and The Financial Times.
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Will voters in your town believe Karzai is worth dying for?
“We’ve heard all of these sentiments before. If you compare his last inauguration to this inauguration, you’ll see there’s almost a 90 percent overlap,” was how one Western official in Kabul put it. Full Article | Comments [12]
Can the West salvage Karzai's reputation?
The election was the sort of travesty that can’t be easily swept under a rug. A U.N.-backed probe concluded that nearly a third of votes cast for Karzai were fake. Full Article | Comments [8]
When is a coalition not a coalition?
How can you tell when U.S. forces in Afghanistan are operating alone? When they call it "the coalition". That’s not a joke. It's just how things work in Afghanistan, where two separate forces with two ... Full Article | Comments [14]
