Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah gives a press conference at his residence in Kabul on November 4, 2009. Abdullah, who quit Afghanistan’s troubled presidential election race this week, charged on November 4 that his rival Hamid Karzai’s re-election had ‘no legal basis’. Abdullah, who pulled out of a run-off poll scheduled after more than a million votes cast in the August 20 election were deemed fraudulent, said Karzai lacked legitimacy after being re-appointed by electoral commissioners. UPI/Hossein Fatemi

Date Taken: November 4, 2009