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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 rival says Karzai undermines war on Taliban By SLOBODAN LEKIC,Associated Press Writer - Saturday, April 3 Send IM Story Print KABUL – A main political rival accused Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday of undermining the war against the Taliban by blaming the international community for the controversy over last year's disputed election. Also Friday, a three German soldiers were killed when their detachment was attacked in the northern province of Kunduz, the German Defense Ministry said. Abdullah Abdullah _ who dropped out of a presidential runoff against Karzai saying it would be a repeat of the fraud-marred election _ also said he was worried about the president's recent behavior, describing it as erratic. "As a former colleague and doctor, I think this is beyond a normal attitude," said Abdullah, who served as foreign minister during Karzai's first term. Abdullah spoke to reporters a day after Karzai accused the U.N. and international community of trying to rig the presidential election in order to either deny him a second term or tarnish his victory. Afghanistan's election commission declared Karzai the winner of the Aug. 20 balloting, but a U.N.-supported independent complaints commission threw out nearly a third of his votes, forcing him into a runoff with Abdullah. It took a flurry of high-level diplomatic visits and intense international pressure for Karzai to accept that he had not won the election in the first round. The Obama administration and its NATO allies are relying on Karzai's government to be a reliable partner in the war against the Taliban. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, believes the support of the Afghan people for the government is key to winning the war. During the news conference, Abdullah accused Karzai of undermining the morale of Afghan forces battling the stubborn Taliban insurgency by implying that Afghanistan was still a country under foreign occupation. "It was extraordinary ... this is treason to the national interest," he said. "What is the message to the thousands of soldiers and national police defending the country?" "(Karzai) thinks that by taking that message he has delivered a populist stance, an anti-foreigner message," Abdullah said. "He tried to blur the line between national resistance to terrorism and the insurgency." Karzai's comments, delivered Thursday to employees of the state election commission, came after parliament rejected his bid to expand his control over the country's electoral institutions. The remarks were seen as sharpening the power struggle with an increasingly independent-minded parliament over whether foreigners will help oversee parliamentary elections scheduled for September. During his speech Thursday, Karzai acknowledged there had been "vast fraud" in the August vote, which returned him to office for a second five-year term. But he blamed the fraud on the U.N. and other foreign organizations. Turning the accusation back on Karzai, Abdullah said it was clear the president and his supporters were the ones responsible. Two good things came out of Karzai's comments, he said. "First, the admission that there was massive fraud; and second, the admission that his rule was in fact illegitimate," Abdullah said. In Kunduz, militants attacked a German patrol southwest of the city, killing three soldiers and wounding five, according to the German Defense Ministry said. German troops and Afghan police exchanged fire with their attackers for about an hour, with fighting resuming three hours later, local government chief Abdul Wahid Omar Khil said. He estimated there were about 200 Taliban fighters. One Taliban fighter was killed and another was wounded, but the Germans and Afghan police were unable to use major firepower because the Taliban were firing from inside and on top of civilian homes, Omar Khil said. Kunduz provincial police Chief Gen. Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi said the battle began after a mine exploded under a German armored vehicle. He said the Germans were preparing to build a bridge and clear mines in the Chahar Dara area, about eight miles (12 kilometers) from the provincial capital. Germany has more than 4,000 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO presence fighting the Taliban and seeking to establish central government authority. 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