Reply #40: Peter W. Galbraith -- used to be one of our best in Afghanistan. [View All]

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From WikiPedia:

Galbraith, considered a close ally of Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan,<7> was announced as the next United Nations' Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan on March 25, 2009<8> but abruptly left the country in mid September 2009 at the request of UN Special Representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide following a dispute over the handling of the reported fraud in the 2009 Afghan presidential election<9> - and on September 30, the UN announced that he had been removed from his position by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.<10>

In response to his firing, Galbraith told The Times, "I was not prepared to be complicit in a cover-up or in an effort to downplay the fraud that took place. I felt we had to face squarely the fraud that took place. Kai downplayed the fraud.".<11><12> When Eide announced his own stepping down in December, 2009, he did not do so voluntarily, according to Galbraith, though Eide has said it was a voluntary departure.<13>

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_W._Galbraith