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Australian Soldiers don't trust their Afghan army allies
# Claims of betrayal by allies# ADF seriously concerned AN Afghan soldier working alongside Australian troops was suspected of spying for the Taliban after making a long mobile phone call just before their patrol was subjected to a five-hour attack. Australian soldiers also feared their Afghan counterparts were "dodgy", according to statements collected from frontline troops as part of a government-funded study of deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. The revelations come after an Afghan soldier this week attacked his British trainers in Helmand province in the country's south, killing two officers and a soldier before fleeing to join the Taliban. The Australian Defence Force has declined to provide further details about the mobile phone incident and other scenarios relating to Afghan National Army troops, but said such allegations were a "serious issue of concern". The incident was documented in an extraordinary selection of transcripts from 120 serving and former troops from the two Iraq offensives, dating back to the early 1990s, and the ongoing Afghanistan war. Full article @ source link Posted by: Oztralian 2010-07-15 |
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