UN report criticises covert troops who committed Afghan killings
Covert troops who killed two pregnant women and a teenage girl in eastern Afghanistan went on to inflict "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" on the survivors of a botched night raid, a report by the UN said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7063184.ece
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$6 Billion Later, Afghan Cops Aren't Ready to Serve
T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, Mark Hosenball and Ron Moreau, Newsweek: "Mohammad Moqim watches in despair as his men struggle with their AK-47 automatic rifles, doing their best to hit man-size targets 50 meters away. A few of the police trainees lying prone in the mud are decent shots, but the rest shoot clumsily, and fumble as they try to reload their weapons. The Afghan National Police (ANP) captain sighs as he dismisses one group of trainees and orders 25 more to take their places on the firing line. 'We are still at zero,' says Captain Moqim, 35, an eight-year veteran of the force. 'They don't listen, are undisciplined, and will never be real policemen.'"
http://www.truthout.org/6-billion-later-afghan-cops-aren%27t-ready-serve57891
Policing Afghanistan: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck
Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch.com: "The Pentagon faces a tough choice: Should it award a new contract to Xe (formerly Blackwater), a company made infamous when its employees killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad in 2007, or to DynCorp, a company made infamous in Bosnia in 1999 when some of its employees were caught trafficking young girls for sex?"
http://www.truthout.org/policing-afghanistan-how-afghan-police-training-became-a-train-wreck57866
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=covert+troops
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DynCorp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=T.+Christian+Miller
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Hosenball
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pratap+Chatterjee
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7063184.ece
From Information Clearing House
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$6 Billion Later, Afghan Cops Aren't Ready to Serve
T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, Mark Hosenball and Ron Moreau, Newsweek: "Mohammad Moqim watches in despair as his men struggle with their AK-47 automatic rifles, doing their best to hit man-size targets 50 meters away. A few of the police trainees lying prone in the mud are decent shots, but the rest shoot clumsily, and fumble as they try to reload their weapons. The Afghan National Police (ANP) captain sighs as he dismisses one group of trainees and orders 25 more to take their places on the firing line. 'We are still at zero,' says Captain Moqim, 35, an eight-year veteran of the force. 'They don't listen, are undisciplined, and will never be real policemen.'"
http://www.truthout.org/6-billion-later-afghan-cops-aren%27t-ready-serve57891
Policing Afghanistan: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck
Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch.com: "The Pentagon faces a tough choice: Should it award a new contract to Xe (formerly Blackwater), a company made infamous when its employees killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad in 2007, or to DynCorp, a company made infamous in Bosnia in 1999 when some of its employees were caught trafficking young girls for sex?"
http://www.truthout.org/policing-afghanistan-how-afghan-police-training-became-a-train-wreck57866
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=covert+troops
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DynCorp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=T.+Christian+Miller
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Hosenball
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Moreau
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pratap+Chatterjee
rudkla - 18. Mär, 06:22
