The Pakistani media are filled with reports that the United States is pressing Mr. Musharraf to help capture Mr. bin Laden to strengthen President Bush's bid for re-election, a charge denied by administration officials.
That threat led Liberals to charge that the government was trying to engineer its own defeat in a bid for early elections, a charge the Conservatives denied.
Opposition parties briefly rallied to protest missing ballots on election night, a charge that Mrs. Kirchner said should be investigated.
Republicans accused the administration of deliberately leaking classified information, jeopardizing national security in an effort to make Mr. Obama look tough in an election year — a charge the White House rejected.
They are alleging election fraud; a charge also being made by the leader of the opposition, Anwar Ibrahim, who has called for a protest rally Wednesday in a sports stadium in Selangor state, an important industrial region near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and an opposition stronghold, according to the Singaporean newspaper Today.
Mr. Maliki has been demanding a recount of the results of the March 7 vote and accusing Iraqiya of winning the election by cheating — a charge that international monitors, the United Nations and Iraq's independent elections commission all reject.
Senator John McCain, Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 presidential election, has suggested some of the leaks may have been calculated to boost the Democratic president's re-election efforts - a charge the White House emphatically denies.
In a general election, that's not a charge Mr. Obama can make.
Mr. Towns has charged that his old confidant was motivated by a term limit law that would result in his being ineligible to run for re-election to the City Council, a charge he is repeating this year.
