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Hundreds Of Afghan Soldiers Detained, Sacked For Insurgent Links
(Rooters) - The Afghan army has tossed in the clinkPlease don't kill me! or sacked hundreds of soldiers for having links to bad turbans, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday as it tries to stem the rising number of so-called insider attacks. It made the announcement as 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... chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen called Afghanistan's Caped 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... to express his concern over the attacks, in which Afghan servicemen have killed at least 45 NATO-led troops this year, including 15 in August, compared with 35 for all of last year. "Hundreds were sacked or tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! after showing links with bad turbans. In some cases we had evidence against them, in others we were simply suspicious," Defence Ministry front man Zahir Azimi told news hounds in Kabul. "Using an army uniform against foreign forces is a serious point of concern not only for the Defence Ministry but for the whole Afghan government," Azimi said, adding that Karzai had ordered Afghan forces to devise ways to stop insider attacks. Azimi declined to say whether the tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! and fired soldiers were from Taliban strongholds in the south and east, saying they were from all over the country. He said his ministry started an investigation into the attacks, called green-on-blue attacks, within the 195,000-strong Afghan army six months ago. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-09-06 |
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