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| Afghanistan |
| MOD to Prevent Insurgents Infiltrating Afghan Forces |
| 2011-04-14 |
| [Tolo News] The Afghan Ministry of Defence says it has taken strict measures to prevent anti-government armed bully boyz infiltrating Afghan cops. At a news conference on Wednesday Gen. Zahir Azimi said there have been a few incidents of bully boyz infiltrating the Afghan National Army. "It is obvious that anti-government gangs are trying to infiltrate the Afghan cops to carry out attacks," Gen. Azimi said. He said Afghan cops have their own filtering methods to identify genuine recruits. The Ministry is optimistic all the challenges ahead of Afghan cops will be resolved by the end of the year 2014. It has stepped up efforts to prepare for the security transition scheduled to begin in July this year. Mr Azimi said the security transition plan will not be reversible. But he admits the Afghan cops are still faced with challenges. "The transition plan will be implemented based on the Afghan forces' potential to take over responsibilities, transition will be done gradually and it will not be reversible. International community has promised to support our forces to stand on their own feet by the end of 2014," Mr Azimi said. According to the Ministry, over seven billion dollars have been spent on the equipment of the Afghan National Army in the recent years. Afghan forces are to begin taking over security responsibilities in July, when the first phase of foreign troops withdrawal from Afghanistan is scheduled to be started. Presently Afghan National Army has 174,000 recruits and the number is expected to rise to more than 200,000 by the end of 2011. The former head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Dr Antonio Maria Costa, had previously warned that the Taliban had infiltrated the Afghan army and police. He had said Taliban sleeper cells had been set up inside the Afghan cops to plan attacks on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... -led troops in the country. |
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