Afghan ’security contractors’ kill 9 Afghan police
From CBS News:
At least nine Afghan police have been killed in an apparent shootout with private Afghan security contractors at a government office in Kandahar. The provincial police chief and head of the criminal investigations department were among the dead, according to a local official.
via 9 Afghan Cops, Including Chief, Killed In Kandahar – World Watch – CBS News.
I’m told that the “security contractors” are actually part of the Afghan National Army that is being trained by US Special Forces to guard bases. There was a group of these guys being trained at a base I was at in Wardak a few months back, and to be honest, they didn’t look like security guards to me.
Their uniforms were all black, they lived in a separate part of the base reserved for special forces, and unlike almost every other group of ANA, they could actually march in formation. Sort of.
Anyway, journalists in Kandahar tell me that local Afghans are furious about this. I expect President Hamid Karzai to come down very hard on whoever is involved and make lots of angry statements about the US military throwing its weight around in his country.
Stay tuned.
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I hope we are not seeing the beginnings of the central American strategy in the eighties here.
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