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Afghanistan Green-On-Blue Attacks: Minister Of Defense Announces New Measures

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Fratricide, Green on Blue, Video, Afghan National Army, Isaf, Afghanistan, Afghan National Police, Nato, Afghanistan News, Drawdown in Afghanistan, World News

WASHINGTON -- The government of Afghanistan has begun to take a series of enhanced measures to prevent the killing of NATO soldiers by Afghan forces, ...

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NATO Supply Convoy Ambushed In Western Afghanistan

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Raouf Ahmadi, Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Afghan National Police, Nato, Nato Convoy, Sayed Abdul Wahid, Najibullah Najibi, Video, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents ambushed a NATO coalition supply convoy in a mountainous area of western Afghanistan, sparking a three-hour firefight...

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Afghanistan: Time To End This War

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Afghan National Police, China, Afghanistan War, Jirga, Iran, Mujhadeen, Afghan National Army, Afghanistan Taliban, India, International Security Assistance Force, World News

There must be an Afghan political solution. The U.S. must assist the Afghans in stabilization the country instead of turning it into a martial state.

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Obama Considering Major Boost To Afghan Security Forces, Armed Services Chairman Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is currently considering a proposal to significantly increase Afghanistan's national security forces beyond their...

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U.S. Expects To Pay $6 Billion Per Year For Afghan Training

AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Surge, Afghanistan, Nato, Afghan National Police, Afghan War, Training, George W. Bush, 2011, Withdrawal, Barack Obama, Afghan Army, World News

WASHINGTON — The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling...

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Afghan National Police Filmed by 82nd Airborne: Pot Before Patrol

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan National Police, Al Jazeera, Marijuana, 82nd Airborne, Afghan National Police, Isaf, Clayton Swisher, Carl Levin, World News

US soldiers don't feel as threatened by the drug-dazed ANP but find them "silly" and have a hard time getting them to be quiet and to focus.

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DynCorp Begs to Differ

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Afghan National Police, Dyncorp-Contract, Business News

What confidence can we have that the government is even capable of assessing whether DynCorp is doing a good job?

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DynCorp Audit Finds Poor Controls On Millions Of Dollars In Afghan Police Program

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Christine Spolar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Defense Contract Audit Agency, US Military, Afghanistan, Afghan, Dyncorp, US, Dyncorp Audit, Cost, Afghan National Police, Spending, Defense Contractors, Police Training, Department of Defence, Politics News

The private contractor that trains the Afghan police force, a U.S. military program long criticized for wasting money, has failed to document millions...

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The Contractors that Couldn't Shoot Straight?

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Peace Operations Association, Afghan National Police, DynCorp Contract, Business News

It is often true, as supporters of private military contractors contend, that media coverage of their activities is unfair, inaccurate, or biased. Dou...

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Congressman Rohrabacher on Afghanistan: Start Drawdown Now

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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According to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher there are three underlying evils at work in Afghanistan that must be addressed: centralization, U.S. military involvement and Hamid Karzai.

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Blackwater Took Hundreds Of US Weapons From Military, Afghan Police Using 'South Park' Alias

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security Contractors, US Military, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Afghan National Police, Raytheon, Ricky Chambers, Kabul, Christopher Dortleff, Weapons, Anp, Guns, Paravant, Ak-47, Senate Report, Senate, Army, Cia, Blackwater, Greg Sailer, Petraeus, Justin Cannon, Xe, Carl Levin, Afghan Police, Eric Cartman, South Park, Rifles, World News

WASHINGTON - A Senate investigation accuses the Army of turning a blind eye when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Af...

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Blackwater, Now Xe, Vying For $1 Billion Contract To Train Afghan National Police

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Pentagon, Police Force, Security Contractors, Afghan National Police, Department of Defense, US Military, Afghanistan, Blackwater, Kabul, Police Training, Anp, Afghan Police, Video, Politics News

"Blackwater Worldwide's legal woes haven't dimmed the company's prospects in Afghanistan, where it's a contender to be a key part of President Barack ...

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Officials: Afghan Cop Shoots, Kills 2 U.S. Troops

AP | LORI HINNANT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kabul, Nato, Anp, Wardak Province, Counterinsurgency, Mcchrystal, Afghanistan Police Officer, Afghanistan Cop, Afghanistan, Afghan National Police, Training, US Troops, Military, World News

KABUL — An Afghan policeman on patrol with U.S. soldiers opened fire on the Americans, killing two of them before fleeing, officials said Saturd...

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US-Backed Militias: New Strategy Against Taliban Will Face Same Old Challenges

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Afghan National Police, International Crisis Group, Jelani Popal, Taliban, Afghan Social Outreach Program, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan Militias, Afghanistan War, World News

A new multi-million dollar strategy, with the impressively bland title Afghan Social Outreach Program, has just been approved by Afghanistan's Preside...

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