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The hasty U.S. troop withdrawal leaves Afghanistan vulnerable to Taliban

Preliminary results said that Ashraf Ghani had won the election to be president

Ashraf Ghani's rival Abdullah Abdullah came second with 43.56 percent of the vote, the Independent Election Commission said.

Abdullah's party aired what it said were intercepted phone conversations in which he ordered officials to stuff ballot boxes

"I have always maintained that the main rival is fraud," Abdullah, a former anti-Taliban resistance fighter, told reporters

The vote pits former anti-Taliban fighter Abdullah Abdullah against ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani

Abdullah, a former leader of the opposition to the Islamist Taliban, came first in the largely peaceful first round of the poll to replace Hamid Karzai

If none of the candidates gets more than 50 percent, a runoff will have to be held, at the earliest in late May

As Afghans go to the polls under the shadow of violence and corruption, Americans may wonder, “Was it worth it?”

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