Crime Wave Sweeps Across Afghanistan

[chlamor]

Crime wave sweeps across Afghanistan

Security fears mount as the line between cops and robbers blurs

Declan Walsh in Kabul
Thursday March 31, 2005
The Guardian

The robbers who cleaned out Qader Yusifi, a Kabul moneychanger, were swift and single-minded. Within minutes they burst into his home, locked his wife and children into a bathroom, and stole away with £6,000 - his entire working capital.

But they were no ordinary thieves, said Mr Qader, hunched over a gaslight after yet another power cut in his rundown, Soviet-built apartment block.

The masked robbers wore green military fatigues, brandished AK-47 guns and, according to neighbours, escaped in a Toyota Landcruiser with tinted windows - vehicle of choice for Afghan army commanders, former Mujahideen fighters and senior government officials.

"I am 100% sure they were military," he said. And there was little hope of police collaring the culprits. "The police are working with the thieves, I am sure."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1448773,00.html

[chelsea0011]

1. Did Laura use her anti-gang-related skills to offer help?

Do you think she visited the poppy fields?

[Bob3]

2. More progress soon they will start to embezzle

government funds - and then our job there will be done.

[slor]

3. Crime waves always follow...

waves of freedom.

[truthisfreedom]

4. with freedom comes freedom to break the law!

didn't rummy foist some such nonsense on us?