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| Afghanistan |
| Elite cadre of Afghan police set up in Kandahar |
| 2010-07-06 |
| There's a new cop in this Taliban stronghold where criminals, insurgents and powerbrokers wield more influence than the Afghan government. Nearly 600 members of Afghanistan's most elite police unit have arrived in Kandahar to help staff new checkpoints — one of the first visible signs of NATO's slow-moving campaign with Afghan forces to ramp up security in the nation's largest city in the south. |
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