Karzai tries to smooth spat with US

“Karzai called Hillary to clarify his statements... and they had a constructive conversation,” assistant secretary of state for public affairs, P J Crowley, said after the telephonic conversation between the two leaders. Karzai spoke to Hillary a day after his statement in Kabul that there was “a very widespread fraud” in presidential and provincial council elections in Afghanistan, but “Afghans did not do this fraud. The foreigners did this fraud.”