2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Roster, Roster
Burden, Chandler	Offensive Tackle	6-4	291	JR-2L	Blue Ash, Ohio/La Salle24	Burden, Randall	Cornerback	6-0	175	JR-2L	LaGrange, Ga./LaGrange18	Cobb, Randall	Wide Receiver/Quarterback	5-11	186	JR-2L	Alcoa, Tenn./Alcoa97	Cobble, Mister	Defensive Tackle	6-0	321	FR-RS	Louisville, Ky./Central84	Correll, Gabe	Tight End	6-5	231	SO-SQ	Cincinnati, Ohio/Anderson/Fork Union Military Academy98	Crawford, Mark	Defensive Tackle	6-1	293	JR-1L	Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis/Coffeyville CC62	Davenport, Tyler	Offensive Line	6-5	309	FR-HS	Hodgenville, Ky./LaRue County61	Davis, Alvin	Defensive Line	6-4	228	FR-HS	Jesup, Ga./Wayne County77	Davis, Marcus	Center	6-1	283	SR-2L	Union, Ky./Boone County60	Delic, Nermin	Defensive Line	6-5	259	FR-HS	Dalton, Ga./Northwest Whitfield50	Douglas, Mike	Defensive End	6-4	225	FR-HS	Largo, Fla./Largo73	Duff, Stephen	Offensive Tackle	6-0	301	FR-RS	Louisville, Ky./Pleasure Ridge Park57	Dufrene, Jacob	Linebacker	6-1	211	SR-3L	Cut Off, La./John Curtis Christian75	Durham, Brad	Offensive Tackle	6-4	321	SR-3L	Mt. Vernon, Ky./Rockcastle County48	Dutton, Alex	Wide Receiver	5-10	170	SO-SQ	Louisville, Ky./Trinity49	Dutton, Nathan	Wide Receiver	5-10	169	SO-SQ	Louisville, Ky./Trinity76	Eatmon-Nared, Tevan	Offensive Line	6-7	280	FR-HS	Bucyrus, Ohio/Wynford55	Evans, DeQuin	Defensive End	6-3	256	SR-1L	Long Beach, Calif./Cabrillo/Los Angeles Harbor College19	Fields, E.J. Wide Receiver	6-1	198	SO-SQ	Frankfort, Ky./Frankfort29	Gainer, Brandon	Running Back	5-11	200	FR-HS	Miami, Fla./Central25	George, Jonathan	Tailback	5-10	204	FR-RS	Lincoln, Ala./Lincoln33	Gibbs, Josh	Strong Safety	5-10	210	JR-JC	Long Beach, Calif./Valencia/College of the Canyons45	Glenn, Antwane	Defensive Tackle	6-3	260	JR-SQ	Pacolet, S.C./Broome64	Godby, Max	Offensive Line	6-4	267	FR-HS	Louisville, Ky./Christian Academy of Louisville21	Guy Jr., Winston	Free Safety	6-1	215	JR-2L	Lexington, Ky./Lexington Catholic31	Harper, Michael	Wide Receiver	6-1	182	SR-SQ	Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson/Howard5	Hartline, Mike	Quarterback	6-6	210	SR-3L	Canton, Ohio/GlenOak65	Helton, J.J.	Long Snapper	6-3	225	SR-3L	Franklin, Tenn./Franklin90	Henderson, Justin	Defensive End	6-3	236	FR-HS	Bamberg, S.C./Bamberg-Ehrhardt70	Hines, Stuart	Offensive Guard	6-4	291	JR-2L	Bowling Green, Ky./Bowling Green83	Holloway, Spencer	Defensive Line	6-3	250	FR-HS	Louisville, Ky./Trinity37	Hudnell, Christian	Cornerback	6-0	202	FR-RS	Cameron Park, Calif./Jesuit2	Huzzie, Qua	Linebacker	5-10	210	FR-RS	LaGrange, Ga./LaGrange51	Johnson, Tristian	Defensive End	6-1	259	FR-RS	LaGrange, Ga./LaGrange13	Jones, E.J. Wide Receiver	5-9	160	SR-SQ	Miami, Fla./Northwestern/Marian College/Pasadena City College36	Joseph, Andrew	Fullback	5-10	226	FR-RS	Marietta, Ga./Pope/Naval Academy Prep School82	Kendrick, Anthony	Tight End	6-3	252	FR-RS	Katy, Texas/Seven Lakes16	King, La'Rod	Wide Receiver	6-4	204	SO-1L	Radcliff, Ky./North Hardin63	Lanefski, Jake	Offensive Guard/Center	6-4	292	JR-2L	Mobile, Ala./McGill-Toolen Catholic91	Laughlin, Brice	Defensive Line	6-3	280	FR-HS	Summerville, S.C./Summerville78	Lewellen, Jacob	Defensive End	6-3	244	SO-SQ	Louisville, Ky./Manual45	Lewis, Tatum	Fullback	6-0	245	SO-SQ	Winchester, Ky./George Rogers Clark95	Ligon, Patrick	Defensive End	6-4	238	FR-RS	Germantown, Tenn./Christian Brothers20	Locke, Derrick	Tailback	5-9	190	SR-3L	Hugo, Okla./Hugo53	Lumpkin, Ricky	Defensive Tackle	6-4	306	SR-3L	Clarksville, Tenn./Kenwood88	Mansour, Joe	Kicker/Punter	6-2	181	FR-HS	LaGrange, Ga./LaGrange8	Matthews, Chris	Wide Receiver	6-5	219	SR-1L	Los Angeles, Calif./Dorsey/Los Angeles Harbor College47	McCaden, Tevin	Running Back	5-8	200	FR-HS	Lexington, Ky./Bryan Station13	McCaskill, Gene	Wide Receiver	6-0	192	JR-2L	Chester, S.C./Chester92	McCord, Shane	Defensive Tackle	6-2	291	SR-3L	Hartwell, Ga./Hart County68	McDermott, Luke	Defensive Tackle	6-1	265	JR-SQ	Louisville, Ky./Trinity54	McDuffen, Malcolm	Linebacker	6-3	205	FR-HS	Hopkinsville, Ky./Christian County93	McIntosh, Craig	Kicker	6-0	199	SO-1L	Lexington, Ky./Lexington Christian37	Meisner, Greg	Fullback	6-1	236	JR-1L	Greensburg, Pa./Hempfield Area42	Melillo, Nick	Tight End	6-2	242	JR-1L	Louisville, Ky./Trinity/Lindenwood71	Mingey, Burt	Offensive Line	6-7	330	FR-HS	Lexington, Ky./Lafayette79	Mitchell, Kevin	Offensive Guard	6-6	326	FR-RS	Winston, Ga./Alexander44	Mosby, Ryan	Linebacker	5-11	206	FR-RS	Heath, Texas/Rockwall-Heath14	Mosley, Anthony	Cornerback	6-0	169	JR-1L	Ellenwood, Ga./Tucker7	Mossakowski, Ryan	Quarterback	6-4	224	FR-RS	Frisco, Texas/Centennial52	Murphy, Billy Joe	Offensive Tackle	6-6	294	JR-2L	Gamaliel, Ky./Monroe County41	Murphy, Brian	Fullback	6-0	220	JR-SQ	Big Stone Gap, Va./Powell Valley15	Neloms, Martavius	Cornerback	6-1	184	SO-1L	Memphis, Tenn./Fairley12	Newton, Morgan	Quarterback	6-4	235	SO-1L	Carmel, Ind./Carmel78	Noltemeyer, David	Offensive Line	6-4	275	FR-HS	Louisville, Ky./St.


2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Roster, Roster
XavierPatterson, Tim	Linebacker	6-4	220	FR-HS	Louisville, Ky./Central14	Phillippi, Ryan	Quarterback	5-11	178	RS FR-SQ	Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay93	Porter, Elliott	Defensive Tackle	6-3	290	FR-HS	Waggaman, La./Archbishop Shaw1	Priester, Jerell	Cornerback	5-9	170	FR-HS	Ulmer, S.C./Allendale-Fairfax39	Ratliff, Jewell	Linebacker	6-1	230	FR-HS	New Orleans, La./McDonogh 3535	Rice, Cartier	Cornerback	5-10	182	SO-1L	Duncan, S.C./Byrnes3	Roark, Matt	Wide Receiver	6-5	209	JR-2L	Acworth, Ga./North Cobb89	Robinson, Tyler	Tight End	6-3	243	FR-HS	Friendsville, Tenn./Alcoa99	Rumph, Donte	Defensive Line	6-3	265	FR-HS	St. Matthews, S.C./Calhoun County/Fork Union Military Academy23	Russell, Donald	Tailback	5-11	209	SO-1L	West Palm Beach, Fla./Dwyer4	Sanders, Raymond	Running Back	5-8	185	FR-HS	Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson15	Sargent, Tyler	Quarterback	6-4	217	JR-SQ	Waynesville, Ohio/Clinton Massie80	Shields, Ronnie	Tight End	6-5	220	FR-HS	Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson38	Simmons, Eric	Defensive Back	6-0	180	FR-HS	Atlanta, Ga./Westlake90	Simmons, Pat	Kicker	6-2	204	SO-SQ	LaGrange, Ga./LaGrange32	Simpson, Miles	Running Back	6-2	210	FR-HS	Independence, Ky./Simon Kenton56	Simpson, Sam	Center	6-4	275	FR-RS	Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay85	Smith, Alex	Tight End	6-5	251	FR-HS	Cincinnati, Ohio/Lakota West69	Smith, Matt	Center	6-4	288	SO-1L	Louisville, Ky./St. Xavier6	Smith, Taiedo	Free Safety	6-0	188	JR-2L	Dunnellon, Fla./Dunnellon46	Sneed, Ronnie	Linebacker	6-2	233	JR-2L	Tallahassee, Fla./Florida58	Stackhouse, Sean	Offensive Guard	6-4	265	SO-SQ	Jacksonville, Fla./Mandarin49	Thomas, Antonio	Linebacker	6-1	236	JR-SQ	Cowpens, S.C./Broome59	Thomas, Jon	Long Snapper	5-11	231	JR-SQ	Louisville, Ky./St.


2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Roster, Roster
Xavier22	Trevathan, Danny	Linebacker	6-1	223	JR-2L	Leesburg, Fla./Leesburg34	Trimble, Dale	Defensive Back	5-10	175	FR-HS	Gadsden, Ala./Gadsden City9	Tydlacka, Ryan	Punter/Kicker	6-1	201	JR-2L	Louisville, Ky./Trinity28	Tyler, Dakotah	Free Safety	5-11	207	FR-RS	Indianapolis, Ind./Pike96	Ukwu, Collins	Defensive End	6-5	249	SO-1L	La Vergne, Tenn./La Vergne59	Ulinski, Dave	Offensive Guard	6-5	321	SO-1L	Louisville, Ky./duPont Manual17	Walker, Jarvis	Free Safety	6-1	208	FR-RS	Marrero, La./Archbishop Rummel72	Wallace, Ryan	Offensive Tackle	6-5	250	SO-TR	Bowling Green, Ky./Bowling Green/Colorado67	Warford, Larry	Offensive Guard	6-3	329	SO-1L	Richmond, Ky./Madison Central26	Williams, CoShik	Tailback	5-9	180	SO-1L	Hiram, Ga./Hiram40	Williamson, Avery	Linebacker	6-1	221	FR-HS	Milan, Tenn./Milan11	Wilson, Greg	Linebacker	6-1	218	JR-2L	College Park, Ga./North Clayton48	Wilson, Ridge	Linebacker	6-3	240	SO-1L	Louisville, Ky./Central74	Woods, Trevino	Offensive Tackle	6-5	290	SO-SQ	Athens, Ga./Clarke Central94	Wyndham, Taylor	Defensive End	6-4	238	SO-1L	Swansea, S.C./Swansea


2009 Kenya sex strike
A sex strike, a form of nonviolent protest, was held by Kenyan female activists in 2009 to end the deteriorating relationship between the country's President, Mwai Kibaki, and Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, who agreed to share leadership powers in Kenya. There was a seven-day sex strike, which involved thousands of women and the wives of both the Prime Minister and President, who vowed to withhold sex from their partner. This sex strike was aimed at forcing the leaders to reconcile as they had different views on how Kenya should be run as well as issued conflicting policies that did not focus on urgent issues that mattered in Kenya such as dealing with corruption and poverty.


2009 Kenya sex strike
The goal of the strike was to revive Kenya and fix the bickering leadership. The women had a set of demands they wanted to be fulfilled which involved principles such as respect and good faith from the leaders. The strike lasted seven days, after which it ended with a joint prayer session where the conflicting leaders finally agreed to talk.


2009 Kenya sex strike, Tribal violence
In 2009, Kenya was experiencing an enormous amount of post-election violence once the President and Prime Minister were appointed as leaders. This resulted in communal violence between tribes. Kenya had a disputed election that led to tribal conflict, which killed more than a thousand people and left more than six hundred thousand people homeless.


2009 Kenya sex strike, Movement
The sex strike was enforced by a women's group called Women's Development Organization, a group in Kenya that is a prominent women's rights group. The Women's Development Organization group has been around for the longest in Kenya as a form of women's rights movements. Eleven other women's groups also joined the strike, eventually involving thousands of women. The movement was significant and caused a major challenge because many men in Kenya are polygamous, as it is allowed by law. The sex strike lasted a full week, from May 1, 2009, until May 7.


2009 Kenya sex strike, Movement
The nonviolent action was the omission of sex by women from men and their husbands. The strike symbolized more than just a hope for cooperation between political leaders, but it also represented the radical progress for women's rights in that the women had the power to decide to withhold sex. Kenya is also very conservative so the fact that women could use sex in their strike and talk about it in public proves the changes and the extent that Kenyan women will go. The women's rights movement is still in its grassroots, but this strike did provide an increase in awareness for the movement.


2009 Kenya sex strike, Movement
The act of resisting sex was enough for the government to reconsider the leadership and how Kenya was being run.


2009 Kenyan Maize Scandal
This was a scandal in Kenya that became public in January 2009, over the sale of imported maize. In late 2008, the ban on importation of maize was lifted by the government to allow capable businessmen to import maize to supplement the local produce that was short of the minimum required to satisfy the local market.


2009 Kenyan Maize Scandal
In early 2009 after parliamentary debate on a maize scandal, William Ruto was accused of illegally selling maize by Ikolomani MP Bonny Khalwale (Public Accounts Committee chairman). All the documents bearing the National Cereals and Produce Board seal that linked Mr Ruto to the illegal sale of maize were accepted by Parliament’s deputy speaker.


2009 Kenyan Maize Scandal
The scandal alleges that the following events might have taken place:


2009 Kenyan Maize Scandal
The Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission is currently investigating the scandal but is yet to make an official report on its findings.


2009 Kenyan Premier League
The 2009 Kenyan Premier League was the sixth season of the Kenyan Premier League since it started in 2003 and the forty-sixth season of top division football in Kenya since 1963. It began on 7 February with Agrochemical and Red Berets and ended on 21 November with Sony Sugar and Western Stima.


2009 Kenyan Premier League
Sofapaka had an alarmingly remarkable season, having just been promoted from the Nationwide League for the first time and immediately winning the title. They also won the Kenyan Super Cup the following season.


2009 Kenyan Premier League
Bandari and Agrochemical were relegated at the end of the season after replacing previously relegated Mahakama and Mathare Youth. However, Bandari gained promotion again for the 2011 season.


2009 Kenyan Super Cup
The 2009 Kenyan Super Cup was the inaugural edition of the tournament. The Kenyan football match-up pitted 2008 Kenyan Premier League champions Mathare United against 2008 FKF Cup winners Gor Mahia, who won their ninth title in the tournament.


2009 Kenyan Super Cup
Mathare United were thrashed 3–0, giving Gor Mahia the first ever Super Cup.


2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series
The 2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series was an Australian motor sport competition which began on 25 April 2009 at Wakefield Park and ended on 22 November at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit after five rounds and fifteen races. The series was open to Group 3D Sports Sedans, Tran-Am automobles and New Zealand TraNZam automobiles. It marked the 19th running of a national series for Sports Sedans in Australia.


2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series
Chevrolet Corvette driver Des Wall won the series after a fierce contest between the top three competitors. Winners of the previous two series, Tony Ricciardello (Alfa Romeo Alfetta) and Darren Hossack (Audi A4), competed initially for the race wins, but mechanical unreliability and on-track confrontations, usually with each other, allowed Wall to close the gap. Wall only won three races (compared to Ricciardello's six and Hossack's five) but was only out of the top five race positions once all season with an eighth-placed finish at Oran Park. Ricciardello and Hossack each failed to finish two races during the series. Wall, who has been a Sports Sedan front runner since 1989, claimed his first series win with a twelve-point victory over Ricciardello. Hossack was third, nine points behind Ricciardello.


2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series
The only other driver to score a race win was Opel Calibra driver Chris Jackson at Oran Park and he finished fifth in the points chase behind series veteran Kerry Baily (Nissan 300ZX).


2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Teams and drivers
The following drivers competed in the 2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series. The series consisted of fifteen races, at five race meetings, held in three states.


2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Results and standings, Race calendar
The 2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series consisted of five rounds, three of which were held at Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships meetings and two at other meetings.


2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Results and standings, Race calendar
Note: The Clem Smith Cup was awarded to the winner of Race 2 at the Mallala round.


2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Results and standings, Drivers' points
Points were awarded 20-17-15-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 based on the top sixteen race positions in each race. There were two bonus points allocated for pole position. Pole position is indicated in bold text.


2009 Kerry County Council election
An election to Kerry County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 27 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing
The 2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing was a terrorist attack that took place at 6:30 p.m. local time on 22 February 2009 in Khan el-Khalili, a souq in eastern Cairo, Egypt, killing a 17-year-old French teenager and injuring 24 other people. It was the first of the February 2009 Cairo terrorist attacks.


2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Attack details
The attack took place just after dark in front of a cafe crowded with people gathering to watch a televised football match. There were conflicting reports that the bomb was thrown from a balcony or from a motorcycle, but security officials reported that the bomb had exploded under a bench in a garden in the square. A second bomb failed to detonate and was defused.


2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Attack details
The bombs weighed 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb) and contained nails and metal fragments. A 17-year-old French girl, who was among a group of 54 teenagers from Levallois-Perret near Paris, was killed. Seventeen French, one German and three Saudi tourists, as well as three Egyptians, were wounded. Early reports suggest the explosive devices were "primitive".


2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Responsibility
According to security sources, there was no immediate claim of responsibility by any militant group, but three suspects had been taken into custody.


2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Reactions
Then French President Nicolas Sarkozy and then Prime Minister François Fillon condemned the attacks.


2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Reactions
The attack has raised fear of the return of the Islamic militants groups to target Egypt's tourism industry. The attacks were also speculated to be linked to anger over Egypt's role in the Gaza conflict. The bombing caused concern for Cairo authorities, who saw the tourist industry devastated by bombings and shootings by Islamic militants in the 1990s.


2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Reactions
Hotels' revenues and occupancy rates fell resulting in the dismissal of workers.


2009 Khyber Pass offensive
The 2009 Khyber Pass offensive was an offensive military campaign by Pakistani Army against Islamic militants from Lashkar-e-Islam in and near the Khyber Pass. The offensive was launched after a series of suicide bombings, including one at a police station where 17 cadets were killed. After two months, Pakistan Army defeated the militants and cleared the area from the militants.


2009 Khyber Pass offensive, Military offensives
Pakistan Army launched an offensive campaign against militants after series of suicide bombings. The Pakistan Army infantry troops quickly launched operation which concluded with destroyed 4 militant bases, killed 40 militants, and captured 43 militants, according to Pakistan Army. Human Rights organizations claim Pakistani security forces executed surrendering militants, a claim which was denied by Pakistan. Outside a press briefing to journalists by local governor Tariq Hayat, a truck loaded with the bodies of militants and weapons seized from militants were displayed outside of the press briefing. Hayat gave no indication whether this would be a sustained offensive. Fighting continued, with large numbers of militants being killed or captured. 2 Pakistani soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a land mine.


2009 Kids' Choice Awards
The 22nd Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards was held on March 28, 2009, on the Nell and John Wooden Court of Pauley Pavilion. Dwayne Johnson hosted this awards show which lasted for more than one and half hours. Voting commenced on March 2, 2009. Performers and presenters have been listed at the official site. The Jonas Brothers sang their song, Lovebug, but changed the line "catch this lovebug again" to "catch this slime time again". By the end of the program, they were named the "slime gods".


2009 Kids' Choice Awards
This year marks the last time that the Nickelodeon Orange Blimp was used on the Kids' Choice Awards logo for 4 years. The Nickelodeon Blimp was not used on the Kids' Choice Awards logo again until 2013. This is the last Kids' Choice Awards to air featuring the former Nickelodeon logo before it was changed later in 2009.


2009 Kids' Choice Awards
According to Nickelodeon, the show was broadcast in more than "228 million households across Nickelodeon's 50 channels inEurope, Russia, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Latin America." It had 7.7 million viewers. More votes than ever were cast for this year’s KCAs. A record 91.1 million votes were cast on Nickelodeon websites.


2009 Kids' Choice Awards
Prior to the live telecast, Lily Collins, Pick Boy and JJ hosted the "orange carpet", featuring celebrity interviews and a live performance by Miranda Cosgrove outside Pauley Pavilion.


2009 Kids' Choice Awards, Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, in bold. Other nominees are in alphabetical order.


2009 Kildare County Council election
An election to Kildare County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2009 Kilkenny County Council election
An election to Kilkenny County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 115th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board in 1887. The championship began on 19 September 2009 and ended on 25 October 2009.


2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
On 17 October 2009, Young Irelands were relegated from the championship following 0-19 to 0-13 defeat by Tullaroan.


2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
On 25 October 2009, Ballyhale Shamrocks won the championship after a 1-14 to 1-11 defeat of James Stephens in the final. It was their 13th championship title overall and their fourth title in succession.


2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
Tullaroan's Shane Hennessy was the championship's top scorer with 1-27.


2009 King Cup of Champions
The 2009 King Cup of Champions, or The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup, was the 34th season of King Cup of Champions since its establishment in 1957, and the 2nd under the current edition.


2009 King Cup of Champions
Al-Shabab won their second title in a row after beating the same team they faced in last season's final Al-Ittihad with a 4–0 victory in the final match. Al-Shabab also earned entry into the 2010 AFC Champions League group stage.


2009 King Cup of Champions, Participating teams
* Number of appearance in King Cup of Champions since the 2008 season.


2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
The 2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was a horse race held at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday 25 July 2009. It was the 59th King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.


2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
The winner was the Ballymacoll Stud's Conduit, a four-year-old chestnut colt trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by Michael Stoute and ridden by Ryan Moore. Conduit's victory was the first for his jockey and the fourth for Stoute after Shergar (1981), Opera House (1993) and Golan (2002). He was the first King George winner to officially race for Ballymacoll Stud although Troy, Ela-Mana-Mou and Golan had won in the same colours.


2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders
The race attracted nine runners with Michael Stoute and Aidan O'Brien each fielding three runners. The Stoute team consisted of Conduit, the winner of the St Leger Stakes and Breeders' Cup Turf in 2008, Tartan Bearer (runner-up in the 2008 Epsom Derby) and the Coronation Cup winner Ask. Conduit and Tartan Bearer were both owned and bred by the Irish Ballymacoll Stud and had shared a paddock as foals before Conduit was removed for his own safety after being "bullied" by his companion.


2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders
The O'Brien contenders were the Irish Derby winner Frozen Fire, the Chester Vase winner Golden Sword and Rockhampton who was running as a pacemaker. The other runners were the 2008 Epsom Oaks winner Look Here, the John Gosden-trained Awaary and the 66/1 outsider Scintillo. There were no challengers from continental Europe. Conduit was made the 13/8 favourite ahead of Tartan Bearer (7/2) and Golden Sword (9/2).


2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The race
Rockhampton set the pace as expected from Frozen Fire and Golden Sword, with Conduit towards the rear of the field in the early stages. Golden Sword took the lead on the turn into the straight but the three Stoute runners immediately moved up to challenge. Tartan Bearer gained a slight advantage a furlong from the finish but was quickly overtaken by, Conduit racing on the outside. In the closing stages Conduit drifted to the right, hampering Tartan Bearer before winning by one and three-quarter lengths. Tartan Bearer beat Ask by a head for second place to complete a 1–2–3 for the Stoute stable. The racecourse stewards conducted an inquiry into the interference caused by the winner to the runner-up, but allowed the result to stand.


2009 King's Cup
The 39th King's Cup finals was held from 21 to 23 January 2009 at the Surakul Stadium in Phuket, Thailand. The King's Cup (คิงส์คัพ) is an annual football tournament; the first tournament was played in 1968.


2009 King's Cup
This edition of the tournament was due to be played at the end of the domestic football season, the Thailand Premier League in October, but was postponed until early 2009 after the Thai national team made other commitments.


2009 King's Cup
The tournament was held in between the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup and the start of qualification for the AFC Asian Cup.


2009 King's Cup
The format of this tournament had also changed from the previous edition, to a knockout basis, starting from the semi-finals, instead of a round robin group stage.


2009 Kiribati ferry accident
The 2009 Kiribati ferry accident was the sinking, on 13 July 2009, of an inter-island ferry in the south Pacific nation of Kiribati. The accident is believed to have killed 33 of the ship's 55 passengers and crew.


2009 Kiribati ferry accident
The ferry was a 56-foot-long (17 m) double-hulled wood catamaran en route between Tarawa and the outlying island of Maiana. It capsized when the captain attempted to turn around to rescue a crew member who had been swept overboard in high seas. The Royal New Zealand Air Force sent a C130 aircraft to aid in air-sea rescue and recovery operations; it aided in recovering twenty survivors, and seven bodies, before calling off the search. A further eighteen bodies were not recovered.


2009 Kirkuk bombing
The 2009 Kirkuk bombing was a suicide car bomb attack that occurred on June 30, 2009, in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The bombing killed 40 people and injured up to 100.


2009 Kirkuk bombing
The bomb, which exploded in a crowded district came as U.S. troops were leaving major urban cities in Iraq.


2009 Kirkuk bombing
A brigade from the Peshmerga captured 250 kg of TNT shortly after the attack. The vehicle was transporting the explosives from Kirkuk to Sulaymaniyah.


2009 Kirkuk governorate election
Governorate or provincial elections are due to be held in Kirkuk Governorate in 2009 to replace the governorate council elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections. The remaining governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan held elections on 31 January 2009.


2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay
The original draft proposed delaying the election in Kirkuk Governorate until after the referendum to decide its precise status has been held. However, a group of Turkmen and Arab MPs proposed a power-sharing clause, establishing a provincial council consisting of ten Kurds, ten Arabs, ten Turkmens and two Assyrians. This clause was included in the draft election bill put to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in July 2008, and led to the Kurdish parties walking out in protest, complaining "If you already pick the seats before the election, why vote?" The law was nonetheless approved on 22 July 2008. However, President Jalal Talabani, who is Kurdish, and Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shi'ite Arab, have agreed they would reject the bill, and hence it would be sent back to the Council of Representatives to reconsider.


2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay
Parliamentary summer recess started on 30 July 2008, but a special session was called for 3 August 2008 to find a solution to the Kirkuk issue. At that meeting, no solution was reached; at another meeting on 4 August 2008, lawmakers postponed the session to 5 August 2008, and on that date to 6 August 2008. It was then postponed to 9 September 2008, with a committee working on a compromise solution until then. At that session, no resolution was reached, and negotiations continued on 10 September 2008 in the form of a special six-member panel formed for this occasion.


2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay
The law was finally passed on 24 September 2008 and the election is expected to be held by 31 January 2009; the compromise was that Kirkuk would be dealt with separately, and elections in Kirkuk and the three Kurdish autonomous provinces will be held at a later time. A special panel was to work on a solution on Kirkuk and report back by 31 March 2009.


2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay
The United Nations Special Representative for Iraq, Staffan de Mistura proposed holding elections in all governorates except Kirkuk, and deferring the Kirkuk elections for six months in order to find an acceptable compromise. A draft bill based on this proposal was debated on 6 August and accepted by the Kurdistani Alliance but opposed by the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Iraqi Accord Front and Sadrist Movement who objected to the draft law's reference to the Kirkuk status referendum and insisted on delaying the entire elections until a solution was found.


2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay
The panel was given a two-month extension to its deadline to 31 May and then a further week to 6 June.


2009 Knoxville Challenger
The 2009 Knoxville Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Knoxville, United States between 9 and 15 November 2009.


2009 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2009 Knoxville Challenger, Champions, Doubles
Martin Emmrich /  Andreas Siljeström def. Raven Klaasen /  Izak van der Merwe, 7–5, 6–4


2009 Knoxville Challenger – Doubles
Kevin Anderson and G.D. Jones were the defending champions, but only Anderson tried to defend his title. He partnered with Scott Lipsky. They were eliminated already in the first round by Raven Klaasen and Izak van der Merwe. Martin Emmrich and Andreas Siljeström won this tournament, by defeating Klaasen and van der Merwe 7–5, 6–4 in the final.


2009 Knoxville Challenger – Singles
Bobby Reynolds, who was the defending champion, chose to not compete this year. Taylor Dent won in the final 6–3, 7–6(6), against Ilija Bozoljac.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500
The 2009 Kobalt Tools 500 was the fourth stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on March 8, 2009, in Hampton, Georgia, at Atlanta Motor Speedway, before a crowd of 94,400 attendees. The circuit is an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The 325-lap race was won by Penske Racing Championship's Kurt Busch from a second position start. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports took second, with Roush Fenway Racing driver Carl Edwards in third.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500
Mark Martin won his first pole position since the 2001 season by posting the fastest lap in qualifying, and he held the lead for the first six laps, until Busch overtook him on the seventh lap. He lost it after the first pit stop cycle to Ryan Newman but he passed him on the 18th lap to retake the position. After that, Busch ceded the lead to Jimmie Johnson after a refuelling problem during a pit stop, but he returned to the lead on lap 103.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500
At the green–white–checker restart on lap 330, Edwards was in the first position, but he was passed by Kurt Busch on the outside lane soon after, and the latter held off Gordon for the remainder of the race to win. There were eleven cautions and thirteen lead changes amongst eight different drivers during the course of the event.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500
The victory was Busch's first of the season, his second at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and the 19th of his career, since he debuted in the 2000 season. The result advanced him from seventh to third in the Drivers' Championship; 46 points behind Gordon (whose second-place finish enabled him to increase his points advantage over Clint Bowyer). In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet lowered Ford's lead to two points, while Toyota and Dodge were tied for third with 33 races left in the season. The race had a television audience of 8,877,000 million.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Background
The Kobalt Tools 500 was the fourth out of thirty-six scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on March 8, 2009, in Hampton, Georgia, at Atlanta Motor Speedway; an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The standard track at Atlanta Motor Speedway is a 1.54 mi (2.48 km) four-turn quad-oval. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the back stretch are banked at five degrees.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Background
Before the race, Hendrick Motorsports' Jeff Gordon led the Drivers' Championship with 459 points, ahead of Clint Bowyer in second, and Matt Kenseth third. Greg Biffle and David Reutimann were fourth and fifth, and Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Bobby Labonte, Kevin Harvick, and Michael Waltrip rounded out the top twelve. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Ford led with 22 points; Chevrolet were in second place with 18 points. Toyota placed third with 16 points, and Dodge were fourth with ten points. Kyle Busch was the race's defending champion from the 2008 event.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Background
Starting from the Atlanta round, NASCAR established a regulation that determines how long the restart zone is on each track. This added to a new rule devised by NASCAR at the start of the season, when they created a zone from which the race leader was required to commence the race for better consistency. NASCAR's vice-president of competition Robin Pemberton explained series officials would double the figure of the pit road speed limit, and then establish it as the distance in feet of the restart area, "It will be twice the pit-road speed. It’s a means to get variable lengths in there for the race track itself. It’s something the garage area asked us to do. Is it perfect; maybe, maybe not. But, it’s a start."


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions were held before the Sunday race; one on Friday and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, and the second, scheduled for 45 minutes, was shortened to 20 minutes because of fog delaying qualifying for the Camping World Truck Series round. The final session ran for an hour. In the first practice session, Mark Martin was fastest with a 30.180 seconds lap, ahead of Harvick in second, and Brian Vickers in third. David Stremme was fourth-fastest, Juan Pablo Montoya placed fifth, and Kasey Kahne sixth. Kurt Busch, Edwards, Marcos Ambrose, and A. J. Allmendinger rounded out the session's top ten competitors.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying
Forty-seven drivers attempted to qualify on Friday evening, according to NASCAR's qualifying procedure forty-trhree were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. Martin took his first pole position since the 2001 Pontiac Excitement 400, and the 42nd of his career, with a time of 29.640 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Kurt Busch whose best lap was 0.108 seconds behind because of his slower corner entry speed. Jamie McMurray was the highest-placed Ford driver in third.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying
Montoya qualified fourth after a minor loss of car control leaving turn four, Biffle took fifth, and Denny Hamlin sixth. Jimmie Johnson, Joe Nemechek (the fastest driver to qualify on merit outside the top 35), Kyle Busch, and Harvick completed the top ten starters. The four drivers who did not qualify were Todd Bodine, Scott Riggs, Jeremy Mayfield, and Geoff Bodine. Tony Raines withdrew prior to qualifying. Martin said afterward, "I feel like a rookie, I really, really do. I'm still shaking. I thought I ran out of talent in turn four. There was no possible way to hold my foot on the floor and not hit the wall, back end first, in turn four. But that was really fun. I live to scare myself like that."


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying
On Saturday morning Biffle was the fastest driver in the second practice session with a time of 30.030 seconds. Edwards was second, and Stremme in third. Hamlin was fourth-fastest, Kenseth came fifth, and Jeff Gordon sixth. Kyle Busch, Montoya, David Ragan, and Johnson followed in positions seven through ten. Later that day, Edwards paced the final practice session with a lap of 30.880 seconds, with Kahne three-hundredths of a second behind in second. Hamlin was third-fastest; Kurt Busch came fourth, McMurray placed fifth, and Biffle was sixth.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying
Stremme was seventh-fastest, Jeff Gordon eighth, Martin ninth, and Aric Almirola completed the top ten ahead of the race. During practice, Martin Truex Jr. was in pain due to a small kidney stone. He was transported directly to the infield medical centre to undergo an examination, and later to Spalding Regional Medical Center in Griffin, Georgia for observation and further treatment. Because of NASCAR's drug regulations, he elected to forgo medications while passing the stone so that he could compete in the race.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Live television coverage of the event, the 100th in NASCAR Cup Series competition at Atlanta Motor Speedway, commenced in the United States on Fox at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (UTC−04:00). Around the start of the race, weather conditions were clear and warm with the air temperature at 73.3 °F (22.9 °C). Lead pastor Chris Patton of Southside Church in Peachtree City, Georgia began pre-race ceremonies with an invocation. Country music artist and songwriter Richie McDonald performed the national anthem, and the command for drivers to start their engines was given by Kelly Brown, vice president of merchandising for Lowe's. During the pace laps, Ragan dropped to the rear of the field because of an engine change. Poor track grip caused drivers to battle for control of their cars during the event.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
The race commenced at 2:18 local time. Martin maintained the first position on the entry to turn one. The first caution was waved on the next lap as Reed Sorenson made contact with the wall lining the track at turn one after a car component failure. He drove to his garage for repairs. Martin held the lead at the lap six restart, followed by Kurt Busch and McMurray. On the following lap, Kurt Busch passed below Martin to take the lead.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Labonte triggered the second caution five laps later, when he spun entering turn three, but avoided damage to his car. During the caution, some drivers including Kurt Busch, made pit stops for tires and car adjustments. Nemechek led for one lap before making his pit stop on the 14th lap. Ryan Newman then took the lead, and held it at the restart on lap 16. Kurt Busch overtook Martin for second place on the next lap. On the 18th lap, Kurt Busch steered right to the outside lane and passed Newman to reclaim the first position.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Hamlin got ahead of Newman for second two laps later. Martin attempted to do the same for third, but he was unsuccessful. After starting 16th, Jeff Gordon advanced to ninth by the 23rd lap. Similarly, Edwards was in seventh by lap 31 after beginning from 29th place. Eight laps later, Dale Earnhardt Jr. lost tenth to Kyle Busch.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Green flag pit stops for tires, fuel, and car adjustments began on lap 53. Fourteen laps later, a tire escaped from Ambrose's pit crew, and rested approximately 70 ft (21 m) in the infield. Ambrose's gas man and firefighter Jimmy Watts ran across the grass, and was within 25 yd (23 m) of the track when he retrieved the tire. Because Watts ventured into the infield, considered by NASCAR to be part of the track, and with cars leaving turn four at near to 200 mph (320 km/h), series officials waved the third caution.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
NASCAR officials escorted Watts from pit road, and he was suspended for the remainder of the event. Kurt Busch made a second pit stop after a refuelling problem at a prior stop. The caution meant 15 drivers were on the lead lap, and Johnson led at the lap-74 restart. Two laps later, Jeff Gordon's clutch developed a problem. On lap 78, Edwards overtook Hamlin for second. Edwards got past Johnson on the outside lane for the lead on the 81st lap.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Three laps later, Johnson was passed by Hamlin on the inside line while in slower traffic for the third position. On the 103rd lap, Kurt Busch passed Edwards around the outside to claim the first position. Labonte spun on the frontstretch on the lap, necessitating the fourth caution. Under caution, lapped drivers made pit stops for adjustments to their cars.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
At the lap 112 restart, Kurt Busch kept the lead over Edwards and Bowyer. Edwards drove on the inside lane, while Kurt Busch ran on the outside line. As some drivers began another phase of green flag pit stops on the 155th lap, the fifth caution came out when fluids were found in turn two. Kurt Busch again held the lead at the lap 162 restart, followed by Bowyer. Two laps later, Bowyer fell to fifth when Jeff Gordon, Johnson, and Edwards got past him. He lost a further position to Martin on lap 166.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Jeff Gordon caught and overtook Kurt Busch for first on the 172nd lap, but he did not hold it, as Kurt Busch re-passed him before crossing the start-finish line. On lap 183, Ambrose's car billowed smoke, and he stopped on the apron below the track. The sixth caution was issued two laps later as debris was located on the track. The leaders elected to make pit stops for tires and car adjustments during the caution. Truex led lap 190 but Kurt Busch was first at the lap 192 restart.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Ragan made contact with his teammate Biffle on the 196th lap, causing him to go sideways into the wall, and prompting Biffle to regain control of his car. Six laps later, Kurt Busch glanced the wall, and Jeff Gordon passed him for the lead, but lost it to Busch before the conclusion of the lap.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
On lap 204, Sam Hornish Jr. collided with the turn one wall, drifted back down the track, and collected Bill Elliott, prompting the seventh caution. The leaders, including Kurt Busch, chose to make pit stops for car adjustments and tires during the caution. Jeff Gordon took the lead and held it at the lap 209 restart, with Kurt Busch in second and Martin third. Five laps later, the eighth caution was given; Martin cut his right-rear tire, and went backward into the turn one barrier. His car sustained heavy rear sheet metal damage but he continued to pit road.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
The leaders again made pit stops under caution. Jeff Gordon led at the lap 222 restart. Hamlin was passed around the outside by Kurt Busch for third on lap 235. Five laps later, he caught and overtook Johnson for the second position. Kurt Busch narrowed Jeff Gordon's lead, and passed him on the outside lane leaving turn four to retake the lead on the 251st lap. The ninth caution came out nine laps later as debris from Robby Gordon's car was located in turn four. During the caution, the leaders went to pit road for fuel, tires and car adjustments.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
The restart on lap 265 was led by Kurt Busch from Vickers, and Bowyer. On lap 267, Scott Speed hit the wall leaving turn four, and slid into the front of Ragan's car. Biffle was collected by Speed, and was spun into the outside wall, and Jeff Burton went through the grass, activating the tenth caution.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Five drivers elected not to make pit stops under caution. Kurt Busch led the field back to racing speed on the lap 275 restart, with Vickers second. Earnhardt was passed by Stewart, and Burton after running close by Almirola on lap 279, and fell to 14th. Vickers reduced the lead of Kurt Busch, when the final caution was necessitated after Robby Gordon's tire shredded and scattered debris on the circuit. All of the leaders, including Kurt Busch, made pit stops for tires and fuel.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race
Edwards won the race off pit road, and led on the green–white–checker restart (extending the race to 330 laps) on lap 329. Edwards lost the lead on the outside lane to Kurt Busch on the backstretch, and he was then passed by Jeff Gordon. Kurt Busch held off Jeff Gordon on the final lap to take his first win of the season, his second at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and the 19th of his career. Jeff Gordon finished second, ahead of Edwards in third. Harvick was fourth, and Vickers fifth. Bowyer, Kahne, Stewart, Johnson, and Truex completed the top ten finishers. There were thirteen lead changes among eight different drivers during the course of the race, Kurt Busch led six times for a total of 234 laps, more than any other driver.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race
Roger Penske on Kurt Busch ending a 22-race winless streak for Penske Championship Racing.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race
Kurt Busch appeared in victory lane after his Polish victory lap to celebrate his first victory of the season in front of a crowd of 94,400 attendants; the win earned him $164,175. Kurt Busch thanked his team for providing him with a car that won him the race, "This car was unbelievable. I guess good things come to those who wait. I just drove (against) the track, not the competition, We had strong pit stops, a great-handling car, a strong motor and a great assistant spotter."


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race
Jeff Gordon was encouraged with his second-place finish, "It was a great day for us, though. Just driving to the front, battling up front, leading laps, battling for the lead at times. We lost a little something there in the long runs there, middle of the way on and those guys were a little bit stronger than us. But on the restarts, we were real strong." Edwards said of his third-place finish, “Third place, considering our pit debacle down there — we were boxed in, It was just a bad pit stall selection and it didn’t work out like we planned, but we made the most of it.”


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race
Two days after the race, it was announced that Watts was suspended for the next four races of the season by NASCAR for transgressing Section 12–1: "actions detrimental to stock car racing", and Article 9-15-U, a regulation which forbids crew members from entering the boundaries of the track while cars were circulating for any reason. Additionally, he was placed on probation until December 31, 2009. Crew chief Frank Kerr was also put on probation until the end of the year because he was deemed responsible for Watts' actions.


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race
NASCAR stated that had Watts not ventured into the infield, they would have waved the caution once all cars had made their pit stops. Watts admitted to reacting inappropriately and apologized for his actions. According to Ambrose, the decision to suspend Watts was the correct move to take, "It was a disaster. But I think the penalty was a good one. You can't have guys running out to the race track. It's just not the thing to do. Jimmy is a great guy. He went on instinct. You can't blame the guy for that, either. I mean, he just went on a reaction and it was the wrong reaction. He needs to be an example for others not to do the same."


2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race
The result of the race meant Jeff Gordon extended his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 43 points ahead of Bowyer in second place. By winning the race, Kurt Busch advanced from seventh to third, while Edwards' third-place finish meant he was in the third position after being in eighth place going into the race. Kenseth fell to fifth in the standings. Stewart, Kyle Busch, Harvick, Kahne, Biffle, Vickers, and Reutimann rounded out the top twelve drivers. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet cut Ford's lead to two points. Dodge tied with Toyota in third place with 33 races left in the season. The event had a television audience of 8,877,000 million; it took 3 hours, 59 minutes and 1 second to complete the race, and the margin of victory was 0.332 seconds.


2009 Kokang incident
The Kokang incident was a violent series of skirmishes that broke out in August 2009 in Kokang in Myanmar's northern Shan State. Several clashes between the Burmese military junta forces (including the Myanmar Armed Forces, also known as Tatmadaw, and the Myanmar Police Force) and ethnic minorities took place. As a result of the conflict, the MNDAA lost control of the area and as many as 30,000 refugees fled to Yunnan province in neighbouring China.


2009 Kokang incident, Background
The civil war in Burma (later Myanmar) began when the first shots were fired by the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in April 1948 in the small village of Paukkongyi in the Pegu District (present-day Bago Region). Since the late 1960s Kokang was under control by some warlords, the first of them were the Communists and later the Kokang nationalists. In March 1989 a group made by Phone Kyar Shin was formed as a splinter group from the CPB called the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA). The rebels in Kokang made soon after a ceasefire with the Burmese military government; they also were the first armed ethnic group to do so. That same year was the CPB dissolved after a peace agreement was made between them and the government.


2009 Kokang incident, Background
Other groups like the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) and the United Wa State Army (UWSA) were also formed in 1989. Like the MNDAA they are splinter groups from the CPB and after their splits, they also made ceasefires with the Burmese government. This would be followed by many rebels in the states Kachin, Kayah, Mon and Shan made partial ceasefire agreements in the 1990s. During the truce agreement, the MNDAA was allowed to control their checkpoints and collect taxes from the people. In return the Tatmadaw was allowed to travel freely within the just established Shan State Special Region 1 (SR1). The MNDAA had in 2007 between 3,000 and 4,000 men.


2009 Kokang incident, Background
When the 2008 constitution was signed as part of the truce agreement, Kokang became one of the five self-administered zones within Myanmar. Since then, the military junta has proposed that the ethnic armies be assimilated into the Tatmadaw and converted into the Border Guard Forces (BGF); almost all of the ethnic armies have opposed this plan, with exceptions of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army and the New Democratic Army - Kachin (NDA-K) who joined the BGF. Observers and activists claim that the junta's motivation for this proposal is to disarm and neutralise the ethnic groups before the Myanmar general election scheduled to take place sometime in 2010.


2009 Kokang incident, Prelude
Kokang has been ruled since 1989 by the leader of the MNDAA, Peng Jiasheng (also known as Pheung Kya-shin, Its population was in 2005–2006 c. 70 per cent Chinese Kokang, 12 per cent Paulang, 3 per cent of each the Miao and Lisu and 2 per cent Wa. Until 2003, the MNDAA officially produced opium but they stopped producing it under Chinese and Burmese pressure. Two years later the Burmese government declared that poppy growing in the Shan State becomes illegal. But even after that there are claims that Kokang has been implicated in illegal drug trade and Drug trafficking.


2009 Kokang incident, Prelude
Tensions came to a head on 8 August 2009 when the junta military, acting on a tip-off from China, moved into the region for a raid on a gun factory suspected of being a drug front and on Kokang leader Pheung's home. This confrontation, according to the newspaper Shan Herald, was only a "stand-off", with no shots being fired; nevertheless, it triggered a mass exodus of locals who were worried about the possibility of violence. and a resident of the Kokang regional capital Laukkai later described the city as a "ghost town". Chinese officials had to intervene in the face-off, and by 17 August officials claimed that the situation in Kokang was "normal" again.


2009 Kokang incident, Prelude
The MNDAA reportedly has about 1,000 to 1,500 soldiers. Recently there has been an inter-faction split within the army, with Pheung being opposed by deputy chairman Bai Xuoqian—while Pheung has opposed efforts to integrate the Kokang army with the Tatmadaw, Bai has supported it and gained the junta's backing. According to the newspaper Shan Herald, several factions of the Kokang army have become loyal to the junta, and three high-ranking army officials informed the junta government that Pheung was secretly producing illicit weapons and drugs.


2009 Kokang incident, Prelude, Violence
By 20 August, however, government troops were beginning to gather near Laukkai, and Kokang leaders reportedly urged residents to "be prepared", which prompted even more people to flee. On 24 August, junta troops captured and occupied Laukkai "without firing a shot". The anti-junta Kachin News claimed that the takeover was aided by a "mutiny" staged by Kokang army leaders who had become loyal to the junta.


2009 Kokang incident, Prelude, Violence
On 27 August, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army began to open fire on junta troops outside the city; according to a government statement, the Kokang army raided a police checkpoint near the border. Later Wa, Kachin, and as many as nine other ethnic groups joined in the fighting; the United Wa State Army, Myanmar's largest ethnic military force, was also involved in the fighting, as was the National Democratic Alliance Army (also known as the Mong La Army). On 27 and 28 there were more battles in the villages of Yan Lon Kyaik and Chin Swe Haw, near the Chinese border. Across the border, the Chinese army increased its numbers in attempt to maintain border stability.


2009 Kokang incident, Prelude, Violence
By late 29 August, the United States-based Campaign for Burma claimed that as many as 700 Kokang fighters, outnumbered by junta troops, had fled, surrendered to the Chinese, and given up their weapons. Kokang soldiers interviewed in China after surrendering also said they had been overrun. While the Kokang army appears to have been routed, the larger United Wa State Army was still active, and Al Jazeera reported that the government was requesting reinforcements to deal with them; The New York Times, however, reported that the Wa army had withdrawn as early as 28 August. The government issued a statement on 30 August claiming that the fighting had ended, and later formed a new "Kokang Region Provisional Leading Committee" in Laukkai.


2009 Kokang incident, Prelude, Violence
The Myanmar Army's operation in the incident was overseen by Min Aung Hlaing and he was credited for it by the junta.


2009 Kokang incident, Casualties and refugees
No official casualty count was released in the first two days of fighting, although Pheung Kya-shin claimed that his forces had killed over thirty Tatmadaw troops. One Chinese person was killed during fighting when a bomb went over the border. On 30 August, the junta government released its first figures, claiming that the fighting had killed twenty-six junta troops (fifteen police, eleven soldiers) and wounded forty-seven (thirteen police, thirty-four soldiers), and that eight rebel bodies had been found so far; the figures have not been independently confirmed, however.


2009 Kokang incident, Casualties and refugees
From 8 to 12 August, as many as 10,000 residents fled to Yunnan province in neighbouring China, becoming refugees. The total number of refugees fleeing in the entire month may be as high as 30,000, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and later the Yunnan provincial government. Yunnan's police chief later reported that the number of refugees in Yunnan reached 37,000, including Burmese refugees as well as Kokang.


2009 Kokang incident, Casualties and refugees
Yunnan government officials stated they have established seven locations (particularly near the city of Nansan, where most of the refugees arrived) to house and treat the refugees; some locals, however, claimed that not all the refugees were being housed, or were being housed in unfinished buildings and tents. According to one refugee, about 13,000 of the refugees were housed in the tents, and 10,000–20,000 more stayed with friends or family in the area. By 31 August, some refugees (as many as 4,000, according to local officials, or 2,800 according to the junta government) had started returning to Kokang; by mid-September, Chinese officials said over 9,000 refugees had returned and Myanmar officials said over 13,000; many refugees, however, were still afraid to go back.


2009 Kokang incident, Casualties and refugees
Pheung was also rumoured to have fled Kokang, and is currently in China, although his precise location has not been revealed. Before the Kokang forces surrendered, he claimed that he was still controlling them from abroad.


2009 Kokang incident, Reaction
Although China has in the past supported the military junta, during the conflict, it had instead warned Myanmar to end the situation, saying they should "properly handle domestic problems and maintain stability in the China-Myanmar border region" and urging Burma to protect "Chinese citizens in Myanmar". Chinese officials were said to be "furious" and "extermely [sic] upset" over not being forewarned about the offensive on the border. Chinese and other analysts expressed concern that this conflict could lead to a civil war in Burma. The Burmese Foreign Ministry later apologised to China about the incident, but also ran a story on the Dalai Lama in the government newspaper the Myanmar Times, the first mention of him in the state controlled Burmese media for 20 years.


2009 Kokang incident, Reaction
The United Nations has also expressed concern about reports of fighting and thousands of refugees fleeing across the border. The United States government also voiced its concern, and called on the junta to end its military campaign against the cease-fire groups.


2009 Kokang incident, Aftermath
After the fighting ended, the new Kokang leader claimed that the Kokang people would participate in the 2010 general elections; other cease-fire groups such as the Wa and Kachin still maintain that they will not participate.


2009 Kokang incident, Aftermath
Bai, vice-president under Peng Jiasheng, became the new head of KoKang with the support of ruling junta in 2009. The portion of the MNDAA loyal to him became Border Guard Force #1006. He is also head of Kokang Self Administered Zone and a member of Myanmar parliament in 2011. The area was peaceful till new clashes between Peng Jiasheng's troops and Myanmar troops erupted in February 2015.


2009 Kokang incident, Aftermath
Major General Huang Xing, the former head of the research guidance department at the Chinese Academy of Military Science, was ousted in 2015 because of his relationship with MNDAA during this incident.


2009 Kolmonen - Finnish League Division 3
League tables for teams participating in Kolmonen, the fourth tier of the Finnish soccer league system, in 2009.


2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game
The 2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game was the All-Star game for the inaugural 2008–09 Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) season. It took place on January 10, 2009, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The World team won 7–6 over the Russian team.


2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Nominations
Each team consisted of 9 forwards, 6 defensemen, and 2 goaltenders. The starting rosters were voted upon on the KHL.ru website. Both team captains were entitled to opt in 2 alternate captains of their choosing. The secondary lines and goaltenders were voted upon by the media and announced December 26, 2008, with the remaining players and reserves announced by January 8.


2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Events, Game
The format for the game was "Team Yashin" (Russia) vs. "Team Jágr" (World). The teams were named after players who are highly recognized in the sport and synonymous with their respective countries. Both players also captained their teams for the event. The format was voted on by the fans, with the alternative being the standard interconference matchup. This is reminiscent of the format introduced for the 48th NHL All-Star Game and will be used as a device to promote the game outside of Russia, as well as to promote the diversity of the league itself.


2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters
15 - F Jan Marek (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 86 - F Tony Mårtensson (Ak Bars Kazan) 28 - F Pavel Brendl (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod) 35 - D Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana) 05 - D Ray Giroux (SKA Saint Petersburg) 31 - G Robert Esche (SKA Saint Petersburg)


2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters
33 - F Maxim Sushinsky (SKA Saint Petersburg) 25 - F Danis Zaripov (Ak Bars Kazan) 95 - F Aleksey Morozov (Ak Bars Kazan) 34 - D Vitali Proshkin (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) 05 - D Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars Kazan) 30 - G Alexander Eremenko (Salavat Yulaev Ufa)


2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters
98 - F Jaromír Jágr (Avangard Omsk) (C) 81 - F Marcel Hossa (Dinamo Riga) (A) 20 - F Jakub Klepiš (Avangard Omsk) (A) 92 - F Branko Radivojević (Spartak Moscow) 12 - F Esa Pirnes (Atlant Moscow) 21 - F Jaroslav Kudrna (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) ## - F Oleg Antonenko (HC MVD) 06 - D Magnus Johansson (Atlant Moscow) 04 - D Karel Rachunek (Dynamo Moscow) ## - D Ben Clymer (Dinamo Minsk) 01 - G Ray Emery (Atlant Moscow)


2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters
19 - F Alexei Yashin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) (C) ## - F Andrei Nikolishin (Traktor Chelyabinsk) (A) 32 - F Alexei Kudashov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) (A) 10 - F Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant Moscow) 27 - F Alexei Tereschenko (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) 47 - F Alexander Radulov (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) ## - F Oleg Saprykin (CSKA Moscow) 22 - D Konstantin Korneyev (CSKA Moscow) 77 - D Alexei Zhitnik (Dynamo Moscow) ## - D Darius Kasparaitis (SKA Saint Petersburg) 84 - G Konstantin Barulin (CSKA Moscow)


2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters
*International player's flags indicate nation of origin whereas Russian born player's flags indicate the Federal subject of origin


2009 Kor Royal Cup
The 2009 Kor Royal Cup was the 76th Kor Royal Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Thailand Premier League competitions. The match was contested at Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, on 1 March 2009, and contested by 2008 Thailand Premier League champions PEA, and Chonburi as the runners-up of the 2008 Thailand Premier League. The game ended in a 1–0 winning for Chonburi – the goal coming from Suree Sukha.


2009 Korba chimney collapse
The 2009 Korba chimney collapse occurred in the town of Korba in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh on 23 September 2009. It was under construction under contract for the Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd (BALCO). Construction had reached 240 m (790 ft) when the chimney collapsed on top of more than 100 workers who had been taking shelter from a thunderstorm. At least 45 deaths were recorded.


2009 Korba chimney collapse, Incident and rescue
Plans specify a 275-metre (902 ft) chimney for the construction of a thermal power plant by Balco, which is owned by Vedanta Resources. The incident happened during extreme weather conditions involving lightning and torrential rainfall. Workers sought shelter from the rain in a nearby store room, and a lightning strike at approximately 16:00 brought the chimney down on top of them.


2009 Korba chimney collapse, Incident and rescue
A rescue attempt was initiated following the collapse. Ongoing rain obstructed efforts to retrieve the trapped workers. At least seven of the wounded were hospitalised. A Gannon Dunkerley & Co Ltd employee was allegedly lynched by angry workers; his corpse was located near the scene. It was originally thought he had fallen from the chimney, but wounds indicate he was attacked.


2009 Korba chimney collapse, Reaction
An investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the collapse. Balco initially did not discuss the incident at length, stating only that "[t]here is an accident and some people are injured"; claiming to be too busy with the rescue effort to make a longer statement. The state government believes that Balco had been "overlooking security aspects". District superintendent of police, Ratanlal Dangi, described it as "a massive accident". Rs.100,000 (US$2084) in compensation will be granted to relatives of each of the dead.


2009 Korba chimney collapse, Reaction
In November 2009, the project manager from GDCL was arrested, as well as three officials from Vedanta Resources which manages Balco. Later the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur observed that the materials were of substandard quality and technically faulty in design. NIT also concluded that there was improper water curing and that soil at the site was not up to code. Additionally, supervision and monitoring was found to be negligent. On 11 January 2010, as a result of these findings, three senior officials of Sepco, the Chinese company contracted to build the chimney, were arrested and are being held without bail.


2009 Korba chimney collapse, Litigations
The 2009 Korba Chimney Collapse case was headed by Judge Mahadev Katulkar. On 26 November 2009, he rejected bail pleas of BALCO officials, including Vice-President and AGM[clarification needed] of BALCO. He then sent the pair into judicial custody. Later, on 18 January 2010, Katulkar rejected the bail pleas of three Chinese nationals who were contracted by SEPCO to build the power plant by BALCO.


2009 Korea National League
The 2009 Korea National League was the seventh season of the Korea National League. It was divided in two stages, and the top two clubs of the overall table qualified for the championship playoffs in addition to the winners of each stage. The first stage began on 11 April, and ended on 11 July. The second stage started on 21 August, and ended on 22 November.


2009 Korea National League Championship
Korea National Championship 2009 was the cup competition of the second-tier N-League in South Korea in 2009. The 6th edition of the Korea National Championship was held from June 1 to June 12 in Yanggu, Gangwon-do. 14 clubs from the N-League and amateurs Gumi Siltron participated for a total of 15 clubs.


2009 Korea National League Championship
Goyang Kookmin Bank won the competition by defeating Daejeon HNP FC in the final on 12 June 2009.


2009 Korea Open Super Series
The 2009 Korea Open Super Series was held from January 13, 2009 to January 18, 2009. It was a part of the 2009 BWF Super Series badminton tournament.


2009 Korea Professional Baseball season
The 2009 Korea Professional Baseball season was the 28th season in the history of the KBO League. The Kia Tigers won the regular season and the Korean Series.


2009 Korean FA Cup
The 2009 Korean FA Cup, known as the  2009 Hana Bank FA Cup, was the 14th edition of the Korean FA Cup. It began on 1 March 2009, and ended on 8 November 2009. Suwon Samsung Bluewings won their second title, and qualified for the 2010 AFC Champions League.


2009 Korean FA Cup Final
The 2009 Korean FA Cup Final was a football match played on 8 November 2009 at Seongnam Stadium in Seongnam that decided the winner of the 2009 season of the Korean FA Cup. The 2009 final was the culmination of the 14th season of the tournament.


2009 Korean FA Cup Final
The final was contested by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma and Suwon Samsung Bluewings. The match kicked off at 14:00 KST. The referee for the match was Choi Kwang-Bo.


2009 Korean League Cup
The 2009 Korean League Cup, also known as the Peace Cup Korea 2009, was the 22nd competition of the Korean League Cup. It began on 25 March 2009, and ended on 16 September 2009.


2009 Korean League Cup, Group stage
All K League clubs excluding participating clubs of the 2009 AFC Champions League entered the group stage. Clubs ranked odd-numbered places in the 2008 K League were assigned to the Group A, and even-numbered clubs were assigned to the Group B. The fledgling club Gangwon FC entered the Group A. The top two clubs of each group qualified for the knockout stage.


2009 Korean Series
The 2009 Korean Series was the 27th edition of Korea Baseball Organization's championship series. The best-of-seven playoff is played between the KIA Tigers (1st) and the SK Wyverns (2nd). The KIA Tigers won the series in seven games.


2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Monday, October 19, 2009 at Munhak Baseball Stadium in Incheon


2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at Munhak Baseball Stadium in Incheon


2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul


2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 6
Friday, October 23, 2009 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul


2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 7
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul


2009 Korean Tour
The 2009 Korean Tour was a season on the Korean Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments. The table below shows the season results.


2009 Korean Tour, Order of Merit
The Order of Merit used a points system. Points were awarded based on the player's position in each event.


2009 Korean Tour, Prize money leaders
'Events' refers to the number of tournaments in which the player won prize money. Prize money won in the Ballantine's Championship did not count.


2009 Korfball European Bowl
The 2009 Korfball European Bowl was the qualifying competition for the 2010 European Korfball Championship, split into two divisions: West, in Luxembourg, and East, in Prievidza (Slovakia). 3 best teams of each division will join the 10 qualified-teams-by-ranking for competing in the European Championship.


2009 Korfball European Bowl, East division
The East Division took place in Prievidza (Slovakia) from 31 October to 1 November and the winners were Slovakia. Serbia and Turkey were qualified for European Championships too.


2009 Korfball European Bowl, West division
The West Division took place in Luxembourg from 7 to 8 November, and the winners were Wales. Scotland and Ireland were the other teams qualified for the European Championship.


2009 Kosovan local elections
Local elections were held in Kosovo on 15 November and 13 December 2009. These were the first local elections to be held after Kosovo declared independence in February 2008. The elections were to elect mayors and municipal councils in 36 municipalities, and were contested by 37 ethnic Albanian parties and 21 Serbian lists. All citizens with a valid ID were able to vote in the elections.


2009 Kosovan local elections
Pieter Feith, the European Union Special Representative  in Kosovo, declared before the election that he expected the elections to "pass the democratic test".


2009 Kosovan local elections
The elections were still unfinished two months after starting. Many cities recounted votes or ordered fresh voting.


2009 Kosovan local elections
Prizren and Lipljan held their elections on 31 January 2009.


2009 Košice Open
The 2009 Košice Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Košice, Slovakia between 8 and 14 June 2009.


2009 Košice Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2009 Košice Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry a special Exempt into the singles main draw:


2009 Košice Open, Champions, Doubles
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo /  Santiago Ventura def. Dominik Hrbatý /  Martin Kližan, 6–2, 7–6(5)


2009 Košice Open – Doubles
Tomasz Bednarek and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions. They didn't participate that year. Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo and Santiago Ventura defeated Dominik Hrbatý and Martin Kližan 6–2, 7–6(5) in the final.


2009 Košice Open – Singles
Lukáš Rosol was the defending champion; however, he didn't participate this year. Stéphane Robert won in the final 7–6(5), 7–6(5), against Jiří Vaněk.


2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship
The 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship was played April 2–5 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This was the 38th edition of the Kraft Nabisco Championship and the 27th as a women's major golf championship.


2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship
Brittany Lincicome, age 23, eagled the final hole to win her first major, one stroke ahead of runner-up Cristie Kerr; the victory was her third on the LPGA Tour. Down a stroke on the 72nd hole, Lincicome's second shot at the 485-yard (443 m) par-5 stopped within four feet (1.2 m) of the flagstick and she sank the putt. Defending champion Lorena Ochoa finished eight strokes back, tied for twelfth.


2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado
The 2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado was an F3 tornado that occurred on Junе 3, 2009, in Krasnozavodsk near Sergiev Posad in the Moscow region at 22.15 MST. It was the first powerful tornado in the vicinity of Moscow since the tornado of 1984. By damage registered in photo and video materials, this tornado is categorised at F2 at its rise, and at F3 at maximum stage.


2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado, Synopsis
Late on June 3, 2009, a cold-core non-tropical low pressure area located over the Baltic Sea collided with a warm air mass, creating atmospheric instability. The result was a line of severe thunderstorms, also known as a squall line, in the Moscow area. One of the thunderstorms broke off and developed into a supercell thunderstorm about 30 km (19 mi) from Moscow, Russia. The supercell spawned a 150 m (490 ft) wide tornado in Krasnozavodsk. The tornado reached F3 intensity along its path. The tornado was the first intense tornado to impact the Moscow region in nearly 25 years. Upwards of 38 mm (1.5 in) of rain fell throughout the impacted regions. This is roughly half the monthly rainfall average.


2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado, Impact
The tornado damaged and destroyed numerous homes within the Moscow region. The most severe damage took place in Krasnozavodsk where nine people were reportedly killed, one of whom was later confirmed, and 185 others were injured. The fatality occurred after a boy was pinned underneath a downed tree. Teachers rushed to pull the child from the fallen tree but were unable to free him. Paramedics declared him dead at the scene by the time they arrived. High winds produced by the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado cut power to 40,000 people throughout 250 towns in the area.


2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado, Impact
Live power lines downed by the tornado sparked fires that destroyed ten structures. Damage from the fires amounted to 170 million RUB (US$5.3 million). In Moscow, winds up to 61 km/h (38 mph) downed 90 trees, damaged 25 advertisement billboards and several homes. Forty-two homes were damaged by the tornado, ranging from roof damage to severe interior damage, 60 vehicles were either thrown or damaged, and 360 trees were uprooted. Damages from the tornado were estimated at 350 million RUB (US$11.3 million).


2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado, Aftermath
Following the severe weather, emergency response teams were deployed to the affected regions. Cleanup crews also quickly began to remove debris from roadways and rebuild downed power lines. By June 11, all roads were cleared. By June 14, repair to the damaged homes were complete as all the roofs were replaced by city officials.


2009 Kremlin Cup
The 2009 Kremlin Cup was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the Kremlin Cup, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, from 17 October through 25 October 2009.


2009 Kremlin Cup, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2009 Kremlin Cup, WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2009 Kremlin Cup, Finals, Men's Doubles
Pablo Cuevas /  Marcel Granollers defeated  František Čermák /  Michal Mertiňák, 4–6, 7–5, [10–8]


2009 Kremlin Cup, Finals, Women's Doubles
Maria Kirilenko /  Nadia Petrova defeated  Maria Kondratieva /  Klára Zakopalová, 6–2, 6–2


2009 Kremlin Cup – Men's Doubles
Sergiy Stakhovsky and Potito Starace were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year. Pablo Cuevas and Marcel Granollers won in the final 4–6, 7–5, [10–8] against František Čermák and Michal Mertiňák.


2009 Kremlin Cup – Men's Singles
Igor Kunitsyn was the defending champion, but lost to Evgeny Korolev in the first round. Mikhail Youzhny won in the final 6–7(5–7), 6–0, 6–4 against Janko Tipsarević.


2009 Kremlin Cup – Women's Doubles
Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik were the defending champions, but Srebotnik chose to participate at the BGL Luxembourg Open instead. Petrova partnered up with Maria Kirilenko, and they won in the final 6–2, 6–2 against Maria Kondratieva and Klára Zakopalová.


2009 Kremlin Cup – Women's Singles
Jelena Janković was the defending champion, but she lost in the quarterfinals to Alisa Kleybanova.


2009 Kremlin Cup – Women's Singles
Francesca Schiavone won the title, defeating Olga Govortsova in the final 6–3, 6–0.


2009 Kuala Terengganu by-election
Kuala Terengganu by-election of 2009 was held on 17 January 2009 after the death of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Razali Ismail. In the 2008 election, Datuk Razali won by a slim 628 vote majority, defeating Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) heavyweight Mohamad Sabu and 89-year-old independent candidate, Maimun Yusuf. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Barisan Nasional were confident that Barisan Nasional would retain the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat. The Prime Minister had rejected the assumption that there would be a big swing by the voters to the Opposition.


2009 Kuala Terengganu by-election
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim stated that Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and the Democratic Action Party (DAP) would support any candidate that PAS picked. He was optimistic that Pakatan Rakyat would win in Kuala Terengganu if all its coalition parties worked hard against Barisan Nasional. In the 2008 election Razali, a government minister of the UMNO party, defeated a PAS opposition candidate by 628 votes. For the by-election PAS nominated state assemblyman Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut, while Barisan Nasional nominated Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh. Mohd Abdul won the by-election by 2,631 votes.


2009 Kunduz airstrike
The 2009 Kunduz airstrike took place on Friday 4 September 2009 at roughly 2:30 am local time, 7 km (4.3 mi) southwest of Kunduz City, Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, near the hamlets of Omar Kheil by the border of the Chahar Dara and Ali Abad districts. Responding to a call by German forces, an American F-15E fighter jet struck two fuel tankers captured by Taliban insurgents, killing over 90 civilians in the attack.


2009 Kunduz airstrike
Because of the high civilian death toll, the airstrike had political repercussions, especially in Germany. In June 2010 Germany announced it would pay $5,000 to each of the families of over 100 civilian victims, as an ex gratia payment without admitting liability. The former Afghan Commerce Minister Amin Farhang described the $5,000—equivalent to about 20,000 Afghanis—as a "laughable" sum. Earlier, Germany had reclassified the Afghanistan deployment as an "armed conflict within the parameters of international law", allowing German forces to act without risk of prosecution under German law.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Stolen tankers
Kunduz province, the site of the airstrike, was largely peaceful until Taliban militants started infiltrating the area in 2009. Critics blamed the Germans for allowing the infiltration of the north by the Taliban, although in fact there has been a Taliban presence in the area since the late 1990s and several major battles were fought against them in the area during the US/Northern Alliance invasion in 2001. The Germans insisted that they were taking a more aggressive stance and that they had killed or captured a number of insurgents in recent times.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Stolen tankers
The events leading up to the American airstrike early Friday morning began the previous evening, as two fuel tankers were transporting fuel from Tajikistan into Afghanistan for NATO along the Northern Distribution Network. According to The Daily Telegraph, it was roughly 22:00 local time when they were approached by a group of Taliban and Chechens (apparently foreign volunteers), who killed several of the tanker drivers by beheading them and seized their vehicles.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Stolen tankers
According to the Taliban version of events, they later opened the tankers up to looters to siphon fuel after one vehicle became immobilized in mud at a river crossing. It was at this point that the tankers were located by an American B-1B, and two F-15E Strike Eagles were dispatched there.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike
With video of the scene being transmitted from the F-15Es, German Oberst (Colonel) Georg Klein was told by an intelligence officer in contact with a sole informant that all the people around the stationary tankers were insurgents. The German commander ordered that 500-pound GBU-38 bombs be dropped onto each of the two trucks at 2:30 am.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike
The bombs struck two minutes later, exploding the oil tankers in a fireball that incinerated many of those around. The video in the German tactical operations center showed a huge mushroom cloud blanketing the area and revealed only a few fleeing survivors out of the 100 or so people that had previously been present on the screen. Abdul Malek, one of the truck drivers,  was sitting approximately 50 meters from the attack and later described it in an interview:


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike
At first, there was a loud droning, like what you hear when a generator short-circuits. Then there was a bright flash. I just let myself fall forward and went down underwater. Even from there, I could feel the shock wave. For a few seconds, it was as bright as day. Even the water was heating up. When I came out of the water, the whole area around the tanker trucks was on fire. It looked like the ground was spitting up fire, though it was just the fuel from the trucks. It was unbearably hot. There were bodies lying everywhere; they were completely carbonized. I believe there were about 120 there before the bombing; only a handful survived.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike
Malek stated that local Taliban had stolen the tankers in order to provide fuel to local villagers, who surrounded the tankers to siphon fuel when they became stuck in the riverbank. By his estimate, between 1/5 and 1/4 of those present were armed.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike
It is unknown exactly how many people were killed in the resulting explosions but estimates of the death toll have ranged from 56 to 179. The governor of Kunduz, Mohammad Omar, stated that 90 people had been killed, amongst them a local Taliban commander and four Chechen fighters. An anonymous senior Afghan National Police officer said that around 40 civilians were killed in the blasts.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike
A NATO fact-finding team estimated a day after the incident that about 125 people were killed in the U.S. airstrike, and that at least 24 – but perhaps many more – of those killed had been Afghan civilians. A later German investigation found that up to 142 people died in the attack, including over 100 Afghan civilian victims.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike
The strike occurred as villagers gathered to collect fuel from the tankers. The governor of Kunduz province has said that Taliban leaders are among the dead and was supportive of the ISAF attack. NATO has said its commanders had believed that only insurgents were in the vicinity. German forces had responded to the hijack at 12:30 pm and exchanged fire with militants within 40 minutes of arriving, but were unable to reclaim the vehicles.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike
German forces stated that the strike took place after an unmanned surveillance aircraft had determined that there were no civilians in the area. German officials said the strike took place 40 minutes after the commanders requested it. It is unclear whether civilians began to assemble during that time, but one eyewitness claims that up to 500 people from surrounding villages swarmed the tankers for free fuel.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction
Reaction to the airstrike was mixed. The French, Italian, and Swedish foreign ministers all generally criticized the airstrike, while German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung emphasized the danger posed by the stolen tankers. General Stanley McChrystal made a statement on Afghan television and visited the site of the bombing the following day; a NATO team charged with investigating the airstrike also arrived at the scene.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction
In an interview with Le Figaro released on September 7, 2009, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said:


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction
What an error of judgment! More than 90 dead all because of a simple lorry that was, moreover, immobilised in a river bed. Why didn't they send in ground troops to recover the fuel tank?


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction
U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was quoted by CNN as saying, "from what I have seen today in going to the hospital, it's clear to me that there were some civilians that were harmed at that site." Afghan President Hamid Karzai has long been critical of the high civilian death toll caused by the tactics of the NATO International Security Assistance Force. News investigations called it the bloodiest German military action since World War II.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction
While initially downplayed by the German government which was busy in an election campaign at the time, the airstrike then dominated political debates in Germany for several months and in November 2009 led to the resignation of German labor minister Franz Josef Jung, who was defense minister during the attack. In early 2010, further material came to light, especially about the political handling in the German government, which brought further pressure on a number of people, including Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the new defense minister. The major German newsweekly Der Spiegel, in an exhaustive research article published in February 2010, called the incident a war crime due to the fact that the attack on the tankers had broken a number of rules of conduct, and had led to a  later cover-up.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction
German public prosecuting authorities investigated the case, but announced on 20 April 2010 that the investigation was concluded and that no criminal proceedings would be initiated against Colonel Klein and Hauptfeldwebel (Master Sergeant) Wilhelm. They stressed that, according to their findings, neither the German penal code nor international criminal code had been violated; it was found that Colonel Klein and the soldiers under his command acted reasonably according to the information available to them at the time. It was explicitly stressed that later findings about the true situation (namely the presence of civilians) could not make the action illegal in retrospective.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences
On the day of the events, September 4, 2009, the Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (CDU) defended the attack that was ordered by the German commander Colonel Georg Klein. On 8 September, NATO admitted that there had been a number of civilian casualties. On September 9, a report was made by the German military police (Feldjäger) in which civilian victims are mentioned, including children.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences
Several German officials initially justified the airstrike: including on October 29, the Germany Army's Chief of Staff, General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and on November 6 the newly appointed Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU).


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences
On 26 November, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and deputy Defence Minister (Verteidigungs-Staatssekretär) Peter Wichert had both resigned over allegations of a cover-up relating to the incident. A local commander was recalled to Germany while the public prosecution authorities investigated if international law had been breached; the commander only had one source of intelligence, who could not see the lorries, which was a violation of the rules of engagement designed to minimise civilian casualties in air attack missions.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences
On November 27, Franz Josef Jung submitted his resignation as Germany's Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (Bundesarbeitsminister), a position he had accepted after the September federal election, after repeatedly denying civilian deaths in the attack. The political parties SPD, Linke and Grüne announced the forming of an investigation committee.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences
On December 3, in the German parliament, Guttenberg calls the airstrike unjustified. On December 9, the German weekly "Der Stern" published that Guttenberg had received a report of the International Red Cross already on November 6 in which civilian casualties were mentioned.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences
In February 2010 German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced the Afghanistan deployment was being reclassified as an "armed conflict within the parameters of international law", which would allow German soldiers based in Afghanistan to act without the risk of being prosecuted under German law.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences
Colonel Georg Klein on the other hand has been promoted and appointed Brigadier General in 2013.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Casualties
Initially, the Bundeswehr did not investigate the results of the air strike, and for months acted as if there had been no civilian casualties. A German lawyer of Afghan descent, Karim Popal, identified 179 civilian victims, threatening legal action. A Bundeswehr investigation then identified 102 families of civilian victims. In June 2010 Germany announced it will pay $5,000 to each of almost all of the identified families, as an ex gratia payment without admitting liability.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Casualties
The earlier official Afghan report about the incident lists 119 dead. This includes 49 armed militants, 20 unarmed militants, 30 civilians and 20 unidentified.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Casualties
The first independent estimate of the death toll, on September 7, 2009, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM), a prominent Afghan human rights group, said that up to 70 civilians had been killed in the German requested U.S. airstrike. The non-governmental group reached the figure based on interviews with local residents that indicated that 60 to 70 non-combatants had died in the airstrike, as well as more than a dozen armed men.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Casualties
The Taliban said they had also set up a commission to investigate the incident, and released a list of 79 civilians – showing name, father's name, and age – that they claimed had been killed in the airstrike. The list included 24 children under the age of 18.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Bundesgerichtshof Judges' Opinion
In 2021 two judges from the German Federal Court of Justice's third senate (which had dismissed damage claims by Afghan families over the incident) wrote a letter to the editor of Neue Juristische Wochenschrift where they complained about the public perception of the affair, describing it as "ultimately based on a Taliban propaganda victory," and decried as highly regrettable how Col. Klein was portrayed in a wrong light as having recklessly ordered a bombing that killed over 100 people, including many civilians and even children.


2009 Kunduz airstrike, Bundesgerichtshof Judges' Opinion
According to their letter, information that had become public in lower courts had been largely ignored by the press, including the confirmed facts that the attacking aircraft had been circling the site at an altitude of only 360 meters for 41 minutes prior to the bombing, and that only around 30 to 40 people were in the vicinity of the tankers when the bombs were dropped; by that point there would not have been any civilians there anymore.


2009 Kuomintang chairmanship election
The 2009 Kuomintang chairmanship election (Chinese: 2009年中國國民黨主席選舉) was held on 26 July 2009 in Taiwan with Ma Ying-jeou as the sole candidate. This was the fourth direct election of the chairman in the Kuomintang (KMT) history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members were eligible to vote.


2009 Kuomintang chairmanship election, Aftermath
In his victory speech, Ma promised to enhance cooperation between Kuomintang and the government, deal with party assets and continue efforts to communicate with the opposition Pan-Green Coalition parties. He wished for the KMT to become a party of integrity, democracy and effectiveness. He would be inaugurated as the chairman on the upcoming party congress scheduled on 12 September 2009.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election
The Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Kurdistan Region were eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. People currently living outside Kurdistan Region were not allowed to vote. The elections followed the 2005 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election. The parliamentary elections coincided with the direct election of the President of Kurdistan. Unlike the parliamentary elections in 2005, the president of Kurdistan was to be chosen directly through popular votes. A referendum to approve the constitution of Kurdistan Region originally planned for the same day was put back to 1 August.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election
Campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and was to be stopped 48 hours before voting started. The elections were held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations in Kurdistan Region and 5 polling stations in Baghdad.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Supervision
The elections for the Kurdistan National Assembly were administered by the Independent High Electoral Commission. In addition, international observers monitored the elections, including from the European Commission.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Supervision
The elections were originally scheduled to take place on 19 May, but were delayed until 25 July.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Minorities
Eleven of the 111 seats are reserved for minorities. Five are reserved for Assyrians, five for Turkmen, and one for Armenians. The Assyrian seats will be contested by four lists, the Turkmen seats by four as well and the Armenian seat by three individuals.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Voting system
The voting system to be used is the closed list system, as was used for the 2005 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election. The open list system had been introduced for the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections elsewhere in Iraq, and the decision to stay with a closed list was criticised by members of the Kurdistan National Assembly who argued open lists strengthened the relationship between voters and candidates and reduced corruption.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Voting system
At least 30% of the candidates on each list must be female.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Electoral candidates
There were 509 candidates running in the elections, from 25 parties or lists. Five of these entities were electoral alliances and others were political parties. The two main Kurdish parties - the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq of Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of the President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani - continued their electoral coalition in the Kurdistani List. They were challenged by the Change List led by Nawshirwan Mustafa, the former deputy secretary general of the PUK and Jawhar Namiq, a former secretary general of the KDP and speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly. The Kurdistan Islamic Union and Islamic Group in Kurdistan formed a coalition with two secular parties called the Service and Reform List. The full list of entities, each with their lot number, are listed below:


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign
During the campaign, the electoral commission was reported to have fined the Kurdistani List 3 million riyals for unspecified electoral violations.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign
A poll of 1,000 people by the Kurdistan-based Point Organization for Opinion Polls & Strategic Studies found most thought the Change List would pose a serious challenge but 49% thought the Kurdistani List would use "threats and fraud".


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign
The Change List has accused the ruling parties of sacking regional government employees who had links to their party. They also claimed that a colonel in the peshmerge regional army had been arrested for supporting them. A Kurdistani List candidate responded by saying "No party allows its members to vote for another list". The Progress List also accused regional intelligence agents of threatening to kill their supporters. Supporters of the change List were shot at in Kifri.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign
Supporters of the Kurdistani and Change Lists clashed in Sulaimaniyah and were separated by police wielding taser guns.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign
Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan boycotted the elections because conditions and principles for a fair elections were not met.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Results
Initial reports gave the Kurdistani List 60 percent of the vote, equating to around 55 seats. The Change List claimed it had won around 28 seats.


2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Results
According to the Los Angeles Times, "Change mounted a spirited challenge to the monopoly on power of the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, making this the first competitive election the semiautonomous enclave has seen. Turnout was put at 78.5%, an indication of the enthusiasm the contest has generated among Kurds."