Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Afghanistan: Police, Locals Implicated In Attack That Killed 9 U.S. Soldiers

From The Washington Post:

A deadly attack on a U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan in July was executed with the support of some local police and government leaders, as well as villagers, according to an internal U.S. military report.

The report, released yesterday, recommended that the district's Afghan police chief and governor be replaced, if not arrested and tried for committing crimes against the government. And it said that the incident underscores repeated problems in the volatile mountain region with the local population offering "passive and active support" to the enemy, which also has infiltrated the country's security forces.

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