A notorious Afghan warlord accused of allowing the murder of
hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners and then destroying the
evidence returned to Afghanistan Sunday night as part of what appears
to be a political deal brokered with President Hamid Karzai.
Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum arrived from Turkey just four days before the
Afghan presidential elections, in which his support could be key to
Karzai's chances of securing more than 50 percent of the vote - the
threshold for avoiding a second round of elections.
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