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The Pentagon reported 107,292 U.S.-hired civilian workers in Afghanistan as of February 2010, when there were about 78,000 soldiers. This is apparently the first time that contractors have exceeded soldiers by such a large margin.

http://snipurl.com/vjfxq



U.S. doubles anti-Taliban special forces

The Pentagon has increased its use of the military's most elite special operations teams in Afghanistan, more than doubling the number of the highly trained teams assigned to hunt down Taliban leaders, according to senior officials.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fg-secret-surge15-2010apr15,0,5221105.story



US military escalates its dirty war in Afghanistan

The New York Times reported Sunday that American special forces units are operating in and around the Afghan city of Kandahar, assassinating or capturing alleged leaders and militants of the Taliban resistance ahead of the major US-NATO offensive scheduled for June.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/afgh-a27.shtml


From Information Clearing House

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Senators Call For Changes to Troubled Afghan Police Training Program

Ryan Knutson, ProPublica: "State and Defense department officials took a tongue-lashing today, trying to explain to a Senate subcommittee how the government has poured $6 billion since 2002 into building an effective Afghan police force with disastrous results."

http://www.truthout.org/senators-call-changes-troubled-costly-afghan-police-training-program58628



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