U.S. Sending Training Agents to Afghanistan to Stem Infiltration of Local Forces

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Source: The New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — Concerned over the growing pattern of Afghan soldiers and police officers attacking their coalition counterparts, the American military is sending 80 counterintelligence agents to Afghanistan to help stem the threat of Taliban infiltration in the Afghan National Security Forces, military officials said Friday.

These intelligence specialists will enhance the vetting of recruits, review profiles of soldiers who are being trained and generally tighten up the procedures to identify individuals who might be vulnerable to extremists’ appeals, officials said.

Some of the agents have already arrived, and the rest are expected soon, said Lt. Col. David C. Simons, a spokesman for the NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan.

Since March 2009, at least 57 people, including 32 American troops, have been killed in at least 19 attacks in which Afghan service members have turned their weapons on coalition forces. Another 64 were wounded. The totals do not include the attackers, many of whom were killed in shootouts or in suicide blasts.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/world/asia/11kabul.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[Poll_Blind]

1. Good luck with that- we'll save a place for your star on the CIA memorial wall.

(or whatever granite surface is appropriate)

PB

[SpiralHawk]

2. Gee, I wonder why the locals are turning on the foreign invaders?

What could that be all about?
:banghead:

[Kolesar]

3. There were not enough CIA drone-planes to observe all the mountain passes...

...because Ronald Dumsfeld moved them to Iraq. Hence, Bin Laden just walked to Afghanistan after bush failed to get him at Tora Bora.

Seven years later, the McCrystal Plan replaces the Rumsfeld Plan. Then there was the Petraeus Plan. Now this

[No Elephants]

4. Yet, we continue to send them money and troops. We're funding killing of our own troops, as well as

helping recruit domestic and foreign terrorists.

[ChrisBorg]

5. Are these the same training agents we are sending to Libya?

Boots on the ground.