depending on what t iec does and what the ecc does.o, you know, i think there are going to be a number of places where we're going to see some numbers and then the question, then the responsibility falls with these two institutions. finally, on alex raised the issue about a parallel vote tabulation and the posting of, i think, lots of people would have wanted to see a system where fifa, the domestic monitoring organization, could have carried out a parallel vote tabulation nationwide. i think it would have been extremely difficult under the -- under the circumstances. now unlike the international observers, fifa said they were in all 34 provinces. but they were hampered by the security situation as well. when we trained the candidate agents, we insisted on two things. when the first was that they were literate and the second that they would have already been accredited by the electoral commission to be candidate agents. and what this did was it spurred the candidates to register their agents before the training began. and so what we tr

>> in terms of the iec our statement relates to the perceived lack of independence from the iec. there was no doubt there was some controversial statements and there were also decisions made by the iec that demonstrated independence from the government. wever, we said in the statement that if an organization is going o call itself independent and be seen as independent the has to be a structure. and so we recommended that they go back to the drawing boards and provide some checks on election commission that is appointed by the president. legislation has been passed to that effect. but president karzai has not signed it. we recommend for future elections that there will be a different system for choosing and confirming members of the election commission. i think in terms of organation and groups that performed well. i don't think i'm in a position to begin. we had a enough of a challenge looking at the election process to spend time analyzing and grading international efforts and what they did and what they didn'to i thinkould be very difficult. i think everyone has peter said wer

lack of independence of the iec. there was no doubt that the -- there were some controversial statements made by the iec early on. there were also decisions that were made by the iec that demonstrated independence from the government. however, we said in the statement that if an organization is going to be call itself iependent and be seen as independent there has to be a structure that ensures that. so we recommended that they go back to the trueing boards and provide some czechs -- checks on the legislation. president parr xi has not signed the legislation. we recommended for future election that there will be a different system for choosing and confirming members of the election commission. i think in terms of organizations and groups that performed well, i don't think i'm in a position and frankly to begin -- we had enough of a challenge looking at this election process to spend time sort of analyzing and grading international actors and what they did and what they didn't do i think would be very difficult. i thi

this time also toward the iec saying they were also engaged in fraud.the iec has denied those allegations. so has president karzai's campaign. president karzai's campaign say they're not speaking up at the moment because they would rather have the institutions handle the situation rather than interfering with democracy. cnn, kabul. >>> cnn's anderson cooper takes you inside afghanistan all this coming week. reporting live from the battle zone. "ac360" airs weeknights 10:00 eastern. >>> china says people convict e of syringe attacks could face the death penalty. the protesters were demanding more police protection, and a crackdown on the native muslim uighurs. protesters blame them for the attack. this part of china has been wracked by ethnic violence between the weuighurs and millis of chinese who have moved there from other parts of the country. >>> remember the 1970s blockbuster movie "jaws"? we'll tell you why some beaches in new england are closed this weekend. welcome to progressive. how may i help you? i'm looking for a deal on car insurance. i th

the iec has denied those allegations. so has president karzai's campaign. campaign say they're not speaking up at the moment because they would rather have the institutions handle the situation rather than interfering with democracy. atia abawi, cnn, kabul. >>> the man who blew the whistle on his naked cohorts in afghanistan is speaking out. hear what he has to say about the behavior and why he's now looking for a new job. still haven't tried activia? listen to this story. my problem was occasional irregularity. my commercials didn't convince you? i am definitely a skeptic. actually, my mom convinced me. and i have activia every morning for breakfast. activia definitely helped with my occasional irregularity. activia is clinically proven to help regulate your digestive system in two weeks when eaten every day. chances are someone you trust can recommend activia. take the activia challenge. it works or your money back! ♪ activia! >>> a look at our top stories. one of the president's top environmental advisors is resigning. environmental point man van jones s

we are awaiting the iec issuing their full report. what is most important is that there is a sense of legitimacy in afghanistan among the afghan people for the government. if there is not, that makes our task much more difficult. in terms of the review process we are going through, the minute i came into office, we initiated a review, and even before the review was completed, i ordered 21,000 additional troops into afghanistan, because i thought it was important to secure the election, to make sure that the taliban did not disrupted. what i also said at the time was that after the election, we were going to reassess our strategy, precisely because so much of our success has to be linked to the ability of the afghan people themselves to provide for their own security. the afghan government's ability to deliver services, opportunity, and hope to their people. so we are doing exactly what i said we would do in march. i put in a new commander, general mcchrystal, and i asked him to give me an unvarnished assessment of the situation in afg

we're awaiting the iec and the ecc issuing their full report. what's most important is that there is a sense of legitimacy in afghanistan among the afghan people for their government. if there is not, that makes our task much more difficult. in terms of the review process that we're going through, the minute i came into office, we initiated a review and even before that review was completed i ordered 21,000 additional troops into afghanistan because i thought it was important to secure the election. to make sure that the taliban did not disrupt it. what i also said at the time was that after the election we are going to reassess our strategy precisely because so much of our success has to be linked to the ability of the afghan people themselves to provide for their own security, their own training. the afghan government's ability to deliver services and opportunity and hope to their peop people. so we are doing exactly what i said we would do in march. i put in a new commander, general mcchrystal, and i asked him to give me an unvarnished assess

we are awaiting the iec issuing their full report. what is most important is that there is a sense of legitimacy in afghanistan among the afghan people for the government. if there is not, that makes our task much more difficult. in terms of the review process we are going through, the minute i came into office, we initiated a review, and even before the review was completed, i ordered 21,000 additional troops into afghanistan, because i thought it was important to secure the election, to make sure that the taliban did not disrupted. what i also said at the time was that after the election, we were going to reassess our strategy, precisely because so much of our success has to be linked to the ability of the afghan people themselves to provide for their own security. the afghan government's ability to deliver services, opportunity, and hope to their people. so we are doing exactly what i said we would do in march. i put in a new commander, general mcchrystal, and i asked him to give me an unvarnished assessment of the situation in afg

many polls they say have had fraudulent votes but the iec today in a press conference today stating they took the order back stating there was a discrepancy between the versions and they will continue to release results until they have a proper order. >> okay. atia, good to see you. >>> the deaths of four more american troops in afghanistan, the latest painful reminders of taliban resurgence. we look at a symbol of the taliban with a takeover of a road. >> reporter: afghanistan is hurting badly. eight years after america's war began here, the combat continues with the death tolls among coalition soldiers, afghan security forces and civilians ever rising. politically it's little better with the nation in limbo. the final results of last month's presidential election have been stalled by a storm of corruption allegations but it wasn't meant to be this way. having turned its back on afghanistan throughout the 1990s, once the serbian army lost its war here, the united states has been trying to make good on the last neglect. true and undeniable success is hard to see. for ordinary afghans, th