Afghan Police

Suicide Attackers Kill 5 At Afghan Checkpoint

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 05.11.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants dressed in police uniforms blew themselves up after being caught trying to sneak through a checkpoint Thu...

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Taliban Fighters Attack Police Post In Afghanistan, Killing 4

AP | Posted 04.27.2012

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Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- A mortar fired during heavy fighting between NATO forces and the Taliban hit a house in eastern Afghanistan ...

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Suicide Bombings Claim At Least 15 Lives In Afghanistan

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and PATRICK QUINN | Posted 04.11.2012

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By RAHIM FAIEZ and PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 16 people on Tuesday as they step...

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Poll: More Than Half Of Afghans See Police As Corrupt

AP | KAY JOHNSON | Posted 04.01.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Less than 25 percent of Afghans say their national police are strong enough to handle security without international forces...

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IMF To Afghanistan: Get Your Banks In Order

AP | By JON GAMBRELL | Posted 08.17.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The International Monetary Fund stopped an expected $70 million reconstruction payment to Afghanistan over concerns about its la...

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Watchdog: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The United States is at risk of wasting roughly $11.4 billion unless it comes up with a plan for constructing and maintaining nearly 900...

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Afghan Police Officer Kills 6 US Service Members

AP | HEIDI VOGT and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – An Afghan border policeman killed six American servicemen during a training mission Monday, underscoring one of the ri...

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Taliban Insurgency Appears To Be Spreading In Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Eight Afghan police gunned down at a checkpoint. Campaign workers kidnapped. Spanish trainers shot dead on their base. A s...

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Increasing Literacy Is Key To Training The Afghan Army

Posted 05.25.2011

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The current focus of the NATO presence in Afghanistan is to train the Afghan army and police force to take over responsibility for the country's secur...

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Rethinking Afghanistan's Sticky Icky Quagmire

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is definitely a huge drug problem in Afghanistan, and our strategy seems to be the cause of it. Our allies that we desperately rely on are all high on drugs, selling drugs, or both. And not only are we paying for it, people are dying because of it.

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Louis Maxwell, UN Security Guard, May Have Been Killed By Afghan Police

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.25.2011

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UNITED NATIONS — "Friendly fire" from Afghan security forces may have killed a U.N. employee during a Taliban attack in October on a guest house...

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Afghan Police Training Delayed: DynCorp Contract Extended As Pentagon Plans For Re-Bid

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Christine SpolarHuffington Post Investigative Fund A troubled multi-billion contract that has failed to create a reliable national police force in...

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Afghan Police Are 'A $6 Billion Fiasco': Newsweek

Newsweek | T. Christian Miller, Mark Hosenball, and Ron Moreau | Posted 05.25.2011

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Six billion dollars later, the Afghan National Police can't begin to do their jobs right--never mind relieve American forces....

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To Speed Recruits, U.S. Cuts Afghan Police Training to Six Weeks

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Christine Spolar | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. government's plan to rapidly grow the ranks of Afghan police officers has run into a shortage of instructors and training camps, prompting U....

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Blackwater Likely To Get Afghan Police Training Contracts

Laura Rozen | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former officials familiar with the deal say that Blackwater is likely to get a Defense Department-issued contract worth several hundred million dollar...

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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

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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

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"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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The Eikenberry Cables

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eikenberry's cables were a forceful argument against the "Obama Surge" of 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan. Some time after the cables were written, Eikenberry drank the Kool-Aid.

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Iraqi Police Contract Flaws Raise Questions About Afghan Effort

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Christine SpolarHuffington Post Investigative Fund In a report that offers lessons for the growing war in Afghanistan, the inspector general overs...

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Missing Elements of a Comprehensive Strategy in Afghanistan

Lisa Schirch | Posted 05.25.2011

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The center of gravity in Afghanistan is not the military war, but the "war of ideas." America's version of the Taliban, the KKK, was not defeated. The force of public opinion made them irrelevant.

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Taliban-Allied Insurgents Kill 8 Policemen In Northern Afghanistan

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL — Taliban fighters attacked checkpoints in northern and southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 16 members of the Afghan National police. ...

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5 UK Troops Killed By Afghan Cop

AP | ELENA BECATOROS and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011

KABUL — The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and po...

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White House Leaning Against Surge In Afghanistan's Police, Army Forces

Wall Street Journal | YOCHI J. DREAZEN and MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration has soured on a call from its top commander to double the size of the Afghan police and army, reflecting the White House's co...

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Afghan Strategy: Child Rapist Police Return When US, UK Troops Leave

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jul 29 (IPS) - The strategy of the major U.S. and British military offensive in Afghanista...

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Afghanistan: 10 Security Guards Killed In Bomb Blasts

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — The incoming general in charge of U.S. troops along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border vowed Wednesday to be careful...

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