By Musadeq Sadeq, APPatrol of Afghan soldiers outside a gateway into Kabul airport after an officer opened fire on foreign troops.
By Musadeq Sadeq, APPatrol of Afghan soldiers outside a gateway into Kabul airport after an officer opened fire on foreign troops.
More than nine to ten members of the Afghan air force had undergone criminal screening, drug and medical problems in the program to eliminate unfit recruits or Taliban infiltrators.Screening, led by Afghans with the help of NATO, aims to improve the quality of Afghan troops which will take on increasing responsibility for security in July beginning, when American troops are planned to begin to withdraw from the country.There are 100,000 American soldiers in Afghanistan and 284,000 Afghan troops and police. President Obama asked Congress for $ 12.8 billion to train and equip the Afghan security forces this upcoming fiscal year.The members of the Afghan security forces killed 39 troops of the coalition led by the United States since the beginning of 2009. Sixteen of the deaths occurred in the first four months of this year. Fifteen coalition soldiers were killed by Afghan soldiers and police in the whole of 2010, according to NATO.Infiltration is part of an effort by the Taliban to return to the losses suffered by the efforts conducted by the United States to erase parts of the South of the Afghanistan, said Seth Jones, an expert on the Afghanistan at the RAND Corp..a Washington think tank. The Taliban have intensified killings of Afghan Government officials and used other forms of intimidation, Jones said. He said infiltration is a common tactic of Afghan fighters known as the Mujahedeen who fought the Soviet occupiers in the 1980s. They planted agents in Afghan forces allied with the Soviets. "It's just pulling an old game manual muj," said Jones .l ' increase in such attacks shows that the Taliban adapts its tactics, said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat and member of the Commission of the armed forces. " The Defence Ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi said the shooter Ahmad Gul, 48, an officer who has served as a pilot in the Afghan army for 20 years. Gul opened fire at a meeting, in an operations room in the Afghan air corps at Kabul International Airport following a dispute with foreigners said Azimi. It was unknown what was the argument.Afghan officials have completed biometric screening on 4,036 4,241 Afghan airmen, according to figures of the NATO Training Mission, making the Afghan air force far ahead of other services in conducting the audits of history on its staff.Army lieutenant-general William Caldwell, said last week that he anticipated that the Taliban would attempt more attacks by infiltration of Afghan security forces, or by troops persuading in services of Afghan security to ignite their comrades in the coalition led by the United States. A review of the recent attacks by Afghan troops and police on the coalition forces showed that half were motivated by disagreements or combat stress, Caldwell told USA today.For more information on reprints & permissions, see our FAQ. To report corrections and clarifications, contact standards editor Brent Jones. Review of the publication in the journal, please send your comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include the name, telephone number, city and State for the purposes of verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections.usatoday.com.We have updated the guidelines of Conversation. Changes include a brief review of moderation and an explanation on how to use the button "report abuse". To learn more.
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