A Look At How The Taliban Infiltrate Afghanistan's Security Forces

U.S. Army Sgt. Rolan Wade, right, and an interpreter assigned to the Zabul Abribusiness Development Team look on from a hilltop as other team members visit the Qalat Stockyard in Qalat, Afghanistan, March 26, 2012. Wade is assigned to the Mississippi Army National Guard. U.S. Army photo by Lt. Col. Daniel Bohmer

Rogue Afghan Police Officer: A Taliban Infiltrator’s Road To Fratricide -- Washington Post

KABUL — Before the Afghan police officer named Asadullah killed eight of his colleagues and one civilian Friday morning, he spent years as a Taliban fighter, targeting men he called infidels and crisscrossing the Pakistani border with teams of insurgents.

But his first collaboration with the insurgency was the one his neighbors still find the most egregious: He granted the Taliban permission to kill his father, Ehsanullah.

Afghan and Western officials said they uncovered those details in conversations with Asadullah’s family and friends after the new police recruit and Taliban sleeper agent apparently drugged his colleagues and shot them in the head while they slept.

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My Comment: It took years for this Taliban operation to be executed .... a disconcerting idea since it shows the long term approach that the Taliban have in their Afghan war strategy. As for the vetting process that the Kabul government administers in recruiting police and soldiers .... they clearly need to improve their process.