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2012-01-22 Afghanistan

Taliban say they recruited soldier who killed French troops

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Posted by Fred 2012-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 A failure of counterintelligence and screening by unit NCOs.

Even ROTC units in the US strongly screen against kooks and "unreliables", and they get their fair share. The screening process never ends, even with senior NCOs and officers, who have to be watched for their own set of problems.

This killer probably put out all kinds of warning flags that nobody noticed, or just ignored.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-22 10:41|| 2012-01-22 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Northern Cousin posted the following last night on the French story, which I found thought-provoking:

#7 I have deployed three times to Afghanistan, including almost a full year working next to ANA each and every day. They are a proud people and take these kind of incidents extremely seriously.

There are three problems ---

1 Stolen ANA uniforms -which are easy to come by when you have over a 1000 soldiers defecting from the ranks every month. The old "use the uniform" trick

2.Unfortunately, the larger number of attacks have been soldiers that lose the bubble. We can really rub people the wrong way. And when their pay is on average 200 to 300 bucks a month, which some of us earn in a day or less, its easy to get, well, out of step. What is not reported is the number of attacks of ANA against their own.

3. The ANA has been forced to push its numbers at an extrem pace. In part because the West wants to say --- over to you and get out of Dodge. Result poor sreening - and where some just sign up to a room and food for the winter away from ones village, Taliban symbathizers can get recruited. No lie detector there. No written exam either as 9 out of 10 recruits cant read.

What irritates me is the French knee jerk reaction. He just placed a lot more people in danger. The Taliban arent stupid. Hey lets do this some more and more countries will leave --- lets do more the ANA on Coalition attack more -its working. I was furious when I heard his weak whining press conference statements. And the most at risk, in my view will now be his own troops. Big oops. He shoould had have his peepee slapped by other heads of state. But that will not happen. Too sensitive --- More likely behind the scene view - The French gov would like to pull troops to cut costs - and now they have an excuse -a lame one but an excuse nevertheless.

Posted by: Northern Cousin
2012-01-21 23:02

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