8/14/09 -- Kabul, Afghanistan
-- Elections in Afghanistan --Presidential candidate and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah laughing in an Afghan National Army Air Corps Mi-17 helicopter waiting to take off following a large campaign rally in the district of Hesarak in the Nangahar Province heading to his next stop on a campaign tour to through the province. Abdullah Abdullah is second in the polls and noted today as the main challenger to the incumbent, President Hamid Karzai, in the Aug. 20 election. Abdullah served in the Karzai administration from 2002-2006 as the Minister of Foreign Affairs.