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Kabul Blames 'Foreign Spy Agencies' for Insider Attacks
[An Nahar]  Afghan officials on Wednesday blamed "infiltration by foreign spy agencies" into the ranks of its security forces for a rise in attacks by Afghan soldiers on U.S.-led NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces. The announcement came after President Barack Obama This is a teachable moment... and top U.S. military officers expressed growing concern over the so-called "green-on-blue" attacks in which uniformed Afghans turn their weapons against their NATO allies. A total of 10 soldiers, mostly Americans, have bit the dust at the hands of their Afghan colleagues in the past two weeks, and the attacks have caused almost one in four coalition deaths in the war so far this month. President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... held a meeting of the country's National Security Council on Wednesday to discuss the matter. Senior Afghan officials told Karzai their months-long investigation had shown that "foreign spy agencies" including those of Afghanistan's neighbors were behind the rise in insider attacks, presidential front man Aimal Faizi said. Faizi did not name a specific country, but Afghan officials have long accused Pakistain of harboring Taliban Islamic fascisti fighting to overthrow Karzai's Western-backed government. "Reports presented by security officials in this meeting blamed infiltration by foreign spy agencies into the ranks of Afghan cops as responsible for the rise in the individual shootings," Faizi told news hounds. "It shows that majority of these attacks is the result of such infiltration. "The reports further highlighted that foreign spy agencies are increasingly fearful of the empowerment of the Afghans security agencies." Faizi said Afghan security officials had pledged to tighten the vetting process for army and police recruits to help prevent attacks and Karzai would meet NATO commander General John Allen to discuss the issue. America's top military officer flew to Kabul for talks on the issue on Monday with NATO commanders and Afghan top brass. General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he came away "reassured" after discussions with his Afghan counterpart, General Shir Mohammad Karimi. The total corpse count from insider attacks this year has already reached 40, which makes up 13 per cent of all international coalition deaths for 2012. Posted by: Fred 2012-08-23 |
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