VILLAGER'S VOICE - U.S. Army 1st Lt. Benjamin Riley, right, and a Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul interpreter, center, meet a villager during a patrol to the Arghandab River, Afghanistan, July 19, 2011. Riley is a civil affairs officer assigned to the team's security force and is deployed from the Massachusetts National Guard. The team's mission is to conduct civil-military operations in Zabul province to extend the reach and legitimacy of the Afghan government. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-ContrerasCIA Trains Covert Units Of Afghans To Continue The Fight Against Taliban -- The Independent
Shadowy, unaccountable forces accused of human rights abuses.
Covert forces of CIA-trained Afghan paramilitaries are being built up to continue the US-led war on the Taliban as thousands of US troops prepare to leave the country.
Members of one shadowy group of some 400 men in southern Kandahar province have given The Independent a unique insight into their training and secret operations against militants as foreign troops prepare to quit Afghanistan by 2014.
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My Comment: When US forces are gone (or present with limited numbers), I doubt that the Afghan military will operate according to the same rules of engagement that US forces have been operating under. What we are witnessing now is just a glimpse of what Afghanistan will be like after 2014.
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If you'd like to see/know what the photographer of the above photo goes through during his deployment to Afghanistan check out his blog. He shows you through his images his daily challenges from start to the end in April of 2012 all in his blog. http://somephotog.blogspot.com/
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