http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/wo...of-karzai.html
Once again, Afghanistan is fast on the way to becoming Pakistan next door to Pakistan:
In the rape case, Mr. Faizi said, the president told the Interior Ministry to make sure that the local Afghan Local Police unit being accused was disarmed, and that the woman’s attackers be brought to justice, including the unit’s commander. The accusations were brought by Lal Bibi, an 18-year-old daughter of sheepherders who said she was detained, held captive for five days and repeatedly raped and beaten after a distant cousin of hers offended a family connected to the police force.
The case, which The New York Times wrote about on Saturday, again put the spotlight on the Afghan Local Police, a force trained by American Special Operations forces and deployed as a lightly trained but armed neighborhood watch. Active primarily in rural areas, it is intended to fill in where there are few national security forces. But complaints about the groups by residents have been growing, especially in northern Afghanistan, where they have been repeatedly accused of extortion and corruption, among other abuses."
And similar to how Pakistan deemphasizes the abuses or rewrites them:
"The Interior Ministry released a statement on Sunday saying two men had been arrested in a case in which “an A.L.P. commander had harassed a young woman.” But the statement omitted any mention of the reported rape, nor did it say whether the two men who had been arrested were local police members."
Once again, Afghanistan is fast on the way to becoming Pakistan next door to Pakistan:
In the rape case, Mr. Faizi said, the president told the Interior Ministry to make sure that the local Afghan Local Police unit being accused was disarmed, and that the woman’s attackers be brought to justice, including the unit’s commander. The accusations were brought by Lal Bibi, an 18-year-old daughter of sheepherders who said she was detained, held captive for five days and repeatedly raped and beaten after a distant cousin of hers offended a family connected to the police force.
The case, which The New York Times wrote about on Saturday, again put the spotlight on the Afghan Local Police, a force trained by American Special Operations forces and deployed as a lightly trained but armed neighborhood watch. Active primarily in rural areas, it is intended to fill in where there are few national security forces. But complaints about the groups by residents have been growing, especially in northern Afghanistan, where they have been repeatedly accused of extortion and corruption, among other abuses."
And similar to how Pakistan deemphasizes the abuses or rewrites them:
"The Interior Ministry released a statement on Sunday saying two men had been arrested in a case in which “an A.L.P. commander had harassed a young woman.” But the statement omitted any mention of the reported rape, nor did it say whether the two men who had been arrested were local police members."

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