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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Afghan President Karzai promises reform By HEIDI VOGT and AMIR SHAH,Associated Press Writers - Wednesday, November 4 Send IM Story Print KABUL – Afghanistan's president welcomed his re-election by default Tuesday and reached out to opponents, promising to create an inclusive government and banish corruption that has undermined his administration. President Hamid Karzai did not spell out how he would institute reforms or mention whether he is willing to make concessions to his opponents. Karzai spoke a day after being declared victor of an election so marred by fraud that it took two and a half months to resolve. Karzai's main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, said when he dropped out of a planned runoff that he was withdrawing because it could not be free or fair. Karzai said he wants people from every part of the country in his government, including political opponents and Taliban who are ready to cooperate with the administration. But he never mentioned Abdullah by name. "Those who want to work with me are most welcome, regardless of whether they opposed me in the election or whether they supported me in the elections," Karzai said. The Taliban claimed their own victory, saying in a statement the canceled runoff showed their efforts to derail the vote by threats and attacks were successful. "Our brave mujahedeen were able to disrupt the entire process. Even the airstrikes and ground forces were not able to stop our mujahedeen from their attacks," the statement said. The canceled runoff vote also showed that Afghans heeded their call not to participate in an election they said was the tool of foreigners, the statement said. Election officials had cited security concerns as one reason not to go ahead with a vote with a foregone conclusion. Abdullah, who once served as Karzai's foreign minister, has said he will not join Karzai's administration, but will work from the outside for reforms and for national unity. Karzai said he needs international support and does not want to squander the goodwill of those supplying thousands of troops and funds to Afghanistan. Even so, people close to Karzai and Abdullah say they spent the past few days negotiating privately about ministry seats or accommodating Abdullah's platform in some way. The U.S. and its allies have also pressured Karzai to institute reforms and to reach out to the Abdullah camp. President Barack Obama said Monday that he had called for a new chapter during a telephone call congratulating Karzai over his re-election. When Karzai offered assurances, Obama told him that "the proof is not going to be in words. It's going to be in deeds." Karzai acknowledged to reporters Tuesday that Afghanistan "has a bad name from corruption." He repeatedly promised to tackle corruption during his previous five years as president but with little success. "We will do our best through all possible means to eliminate this dark stain from our clothes," he said. Karzai said the problem of corruption was not certain officials. Instead, he blamed inadequate laws and enforcement. "We need to review the law where we have problems, and draft what is needed," he said, adding that an anti-corruption commission created a year ago should be also strengthened. The messy end to the election left the United States and its allies with the difficult task of helping the Karzai government restore legitimacy both at home and abroad. Public support for the war is already dropping in the U.S. and other countries with troops in Afghanistan. The image of a fraud-stained Afghan partner does little to reverse the slide. But those same nations were reluctant to go through with a Nov. 7 runoff that risked lives. Taliban attacks killed dozens during the first round of voting in August, while in some areas, militants cut off the ink-marked fingers of people who had voted. Organizing enough security to prevent violence in a hastily arranged runoff would have posed a serious challenge for coalition forces in Afghanistan, and some officers commanding NATO forces voiced relief at the vote's cancellation. Col. Benoit Durieux, who heads the battalion of some 750 French Foreign Legion in the Surobi area east of the capital, said his men could now focus on other tasks. "We clearly won the first round against the Taliban in terms of securing the elections," Durieux told The Associated Press in the Tora forward operating base, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Kabul. "Why give them the opportunity of a replay?" The Taliban said last week's suicide bombing of a guesthouse used by U.N. election workers "showed that even they are not safe in Kabul." The attackers killed five U.N. staffers and three Afghans. It insisted that all decisions about the vote had been made by Western powers, saying that "the announcement of the election result yesterday showed for the people that all the decisions about the elections were made in Washington and London." The Taliban regarded the election as a Western plot and had threatened to ramp up attacks on those participating in the runoff. NATO and Afghan forces had two to three months to prepare the security for the first round. But organizing a second round in barely two weeks had been viewed as a major challenge, Durieux said. "And the insurgents saw our techniques, our positions during the vote, so they'd have more insight" to try to disrupt a new round of voting, he said. ___ Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros in Kabul and Alfred de Montesquiou in Surobi contributed to this report. 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