The Afghan government expelled or arrested hundreds of soldiers on suspicion of being infiltrators on behalf of the insurgency, after pressure from the US and NATO to do something about the dramatic rise in “insider attacks.”
The arrests come after NATO’s top official Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reportedly “expressed deep concern” to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the rise in attacks by Afghan security forces on their NATO trainers.
Up to 45 NATO troops have been killed by their Afghan counterparts this year, mostly Americans. Initially, the Afghan blamed the attacks on infiltrators from Pakistan’s spy service, ISI.
The Afghan Defense Ministry wouldn’t say how many Afghan troops had been detained or dismissed . But ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi did say, “Hundreds were sacked or detained after showing links with insurgents. In some cases we had evidence against them, in others we were simply suspicious.”
Last month it was reported that the Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Omar issued a statement bragging about extensive insurgent infiltration in America’s trained security personnel in Afghanistan.
“They are able to (safely) enter bases, offices and intelligence centers of the enemy,” he said. “Then, they easily carry out decisive and coordinated attacks, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.”
As a former US official told Dexter Filkins of the New Yorker, “several hundred soldiers in the Afghan Army are thought to be agents for the Taliban or for Pakistan.” He said that many insurgents who have infiltrated the Afghan forces and killed US troops “had been planted in the Army by the Taliban or by Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s main intelligence branch.”
The Obama administration continues to claim the mission in Afghanistan is going according to plan, despite these glaring failures plaguing the effort which is set to wind down in just two years time.
A swell is a large wave which could create a lot of damage. If the war is going 'swell' then it's time to run for your lives.
Of course, if Romney gets into the White House, the swell could become a tsunami, one that dwarfs the one that struck Japan!
Why don't we wave Obama and Romney goodbye and put some intelligent leaders in their place. There are a few in the U.S. I hope. No!
Ah well, same old, same old.
No David,your wish can't be fulfilled at this time,to have a new set leadership to avert the impending Tsunami,oh yes to change leadership in US you will need to change the whole leadership around the world,it is an irony that not only USA is suffering from bad leadership but th whole world is,you want to know why??'
Simple most regimes are US establishment installed and their cronies got to do what their master have told them to do.Therefore we do need sort of Tsunami to wash out such Trash them.AMEN
LOL this should see a large number of new recruits for the Afghan resistance. Talk about a n own goal?
It would be harder to find some who don't have "links" with insurgents; uncle, cousin, brother, etc. Last week the Afghan government was realistic in their proclamation that they didn't have the resources to vet the troops. What magic did they use this week to discover hundreds with "links", and what makes them think that a man needs that link to decide that he's seen enough and too much to tolerate? All they've done is gather up some random riffraff as scapegoats to please Uncle Sammy. I don't suppose this will do much good for the retention rate as the man who only signed up for a paycheck dwells upon his mother's uncle, who tends to make obscene gestures towards the foreigners as they roll through his village, considers his chances of becoming the next goat.
It's all blood theater with all actors on both ends of the barrel and the audience disposable at the whim of the director.
And how many of these recently fired troops will find their way into the Taliban? It seems the Talibs are the only game in town now- again.
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