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Taliban say they recruited soldier who killed French troops
[Pak Daily Times] The Afghan Taliban said on Saturday they had recruited an Afghan soldier who rubbed out four French soldiers a day earlier, raising fears the myrmidon group had managed to deepen its infiltration of the country's struggling security forces. The killings prompted La Belle France to threaten an early pullout from the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-led war. The claim of responsibility raises serious concerns about handing control of security over to the Afghan army and police, which NATO-led forces are currently in the process of doing before all foreign combat troops leave by the end of 2014. "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has recruited people in important positions," Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid told Rooters by telephone from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location, using another name the bad turban group call themselves. "Some of them have already accomplished their missions." The killings in Kapisa province were the latest in a string of such attacks in which Afghan troops turn on their Western allies and mentors.
Posted by: Fred 2012-01-22
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