Key Abdullah ally warns of Afghan unrest if vote recount is ‘one-sided’ --- KABUL — A powerful Afghan governor and former militia leader, who had threatened mass protests in the wake of the disputed presidential runoff in June, warned Wednesday of a “civil uprising” if the ongoing ballot recount proves biased and his candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, is not named the winner. -- Attah Mohammed Noor, 50, had not been seen in public since the election controversy and was rumored to have fled Afghanistan. He came to the capital Wednesday and said he had been away undergoing surgery for shrapnel wounds suffered during the Afghan-Soviet conflict. -- Noor immediately issued a blunt challenge to the costly, high-stakes process that has been undertaken by Afghan and international officials to salvage the country’s first democratic transfer of power since the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001. -- “If the vote recount is one- sided or fraudulent, we will not bow down and accept the results,” he said in an interview. “We do not want a crisis, but we will defend the rights of our people. We will have a big civil uprising. . . . We will occupy government buildings and institutions. . . . We will boycott the process, and we will not recognize the next government because it will have no legitimacy.” -- His comments came a day after Abdullah’s rival, Ashraf Ghani, appeared to back away from a power-sharing relationship outlined in a joint-governing agreement both sides reached in June at U.S. urging, saying, “Dual authority is not possible.” --- Noor made similar threats in June after preliminary results showed Abdullah — who came in first in an initial round of voting in April but did not win a majority — losing to Ghani in the runoff. Abdullah alleged massive fraud and tensions mounted. Convoys of armed men were reported converging on Kabul, and Noor warned that he would create a parallel government if Abdullah lost. - Read More, Pamela Constable, Washingtonpost