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Remember what I told you about how you are living in a dream world if you think Hamid Karzai is somehow independent, that the Afghan "central government" is in any way autonomous, or that the "Afghan" "Police" and "Army" teams (I emphasize the quote/unquote) would some heros as the current propaganda is seeking to depict?
Some choice quotes:
"Afghan police units tangled in criminal activity
A U.S.-backed program to recruit police has failed to significantly stem the insurgency, with some units becoming deeply entangled in criminal activity, including bribe-taking and extortion, a Pentagon-funded study finds."
"The 13,000-member Afghan Local Police has been hailed by U.S. commanders as a vital, homegrown defense force in areas where the Taliban-led insurgency is strongest. But the unpublished study obtained by The Times contradicts official U.S. claims that the police are driving down attacks."
"The study, based on classified data and produced for the U.S. special operations command in Afghanistan, presents a much less positive picture."
"It found that one in five U.S. special operations teams advising the local police units complained that they had committed violence or otherwise abused civilians. In recent months, some U.S. troops accused the Afghan police of drug abuse, bribe-taking, rape and drug-trafficking."
"Afghan officials, interviewed separately, described the local forces as poorly led, allowing them to engage in extortion and petty harassment of villagers. Sometimes the offenses are more serious, such as land seizures, physical assaults and running private jails, with police demanding a role in local financial transactions."
Oh and remember Abdur Raziq, the thug???
"In parts of Helmand province, local police "are taking the law into their own hands, beating people and taking money," said Sami Sadaat, a security expert who is a former policy advisor to the Interior Ministry. "Yes, they helped remove the Taliban. But, in a way, they replaced them.""
Remember what I told you about how you are living in a dream world if you think Hamid Karzai is somehow independent, that the Afghan "central government" is in any way autonomous, or that the "Afghan" "Police" and "Army" teams (I emphasize the quote/unquote) would some heros as the current propaganda is seeking to depict?
Some choice quotes:
"Afghan police units tangled in criminal activity
A U.S.-backed program to recruit police has failed to significantly stem the insurgency, with some units becoming deeply entangled in criminal activity, including bribe-taking and extortion, a Pentagon-funded study finds."
"The 13,000-member Afghan Local Police has been hailed by U.S. commanders as a vital, homegrown defense force in areas where the Taliban-led insurgency is strongest. But the unpublished study obtained by The Times contradicts official U.S. claims that the police are driving down attacks."
"The study, based on classified data and produced for the U.S. special operations command in Afghanistan, presents a much less positive picture."
"It found that one in five U.S. special operations teams advising the local police units complained that they had committed violence or otherwise abused civilians. In recent months, some U.S. troops accused the Afghan police of drug abuse, bribe-taking, rape and drug-trafficking."
"Afghan officials, interviewed separately, described the local forces as poorly led, allowing them to engage in extortion and petty harassment of villagers. Sometimes the offenses are more serious, such as land seizures, physical assaults and running private jails, with police demanding a role in local financial transactions."
Oh and remember Abdur Raziq, the thug???
"In parts of Helmand province, local police "are taking the law into their own hands, beating people and taking money," said Sami Sadaat, a security expert who is a former policy advisor to the Interior Ministry. "Yes, they helped remove the Taliban. But, in a way, they replaced them.""
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