Karzai Sworn In As Afghan President

From a Channel NewsAsia International report:

(Kabul, Afghanistan) Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony in the capital Kabul, witnesses said.


President Hamid Karzai
Karzai took an oath on the Koran as he was inaugurated at the presidential palace in front of foreign dignitaries including US Vice President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The 46-year-old won a landslide victory in Afghanistan's October 9 elections.

It might be rickety and it might sputter and smoke, but the engine of democracy is running in Afghanistan. Woo-hoo!