enhanced_deficit
10-28-2017, 12:10 PM
Training Afghan soldiers exposes the US to a huge risk (http://nypost.com/2017/10/28/training-afghan-soldiers-exposes-the-us-to-a-huge-risk/)
By Paul Sperry
October 28, 2017
Washington is a factory for dumb ideas, but taking the cake may be a US-based military training program for Afghan soldiers that not only can’t keep track of enrollees — 152 of whom have gone AWOL — but can’t even get the Afghan army to use those who actually graduate and return home.
The Pentagon says training Afghans in America is necessary to stand up an army in Afghanistan to fend off insurgents. Yet US-trained graduates aren’t even being re-absorbed by the Afghan military.
According to a new Defense Department report, “Afghan government policy does not require [National Defense and Security Forces] units to either return trainees to their previous position or provide them a position that may utilize the training received in the United States.”
Of the 152 AWOL Afghan trainees, 70 have either fled the US, mostly to Canada, and 13 remain unaccounted for. ICE has deemed Afghan trainees who have gone AWOL “to be high-risk because they involve militarily trained individuals of a fighting age who have demonstrated a ‘flight risk.’ ”
Do any have terrorist ties or sympathies? We really have no idea. That’s because vetting of enrollees is “limited” and the “processes for selecting personnel for training appear flawed,” the report found.
The Afghan trainees, who are given diplomatic visas, undergo no in-person interview or fingerprinting before they are brought into the US. And Kabul “is not enforcing” a program to pre-screen candidates for security risks.
Oct 28 2017, 8:24 am ET
U.S. Service Member Dies After Afghanistan Helicopter Crash, Six Others Injured
by Alastair Jamieson
A U.S. service member died from injuries sustained after a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday, while six others were receiving medical treatment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-service-member-dies-after-afghanistan-helicopter-crash-six-n815271
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Dunford admitted that attacks on the force by Afghan colleagues, like the stabbing of 26-year-old Sgt. Michael C. Cable by a 10-year-old Afghan boy with whom he was working earlier this week, have "absolutely" had an impact on the force. Dunford called such "blue-on-green incidents" a significant threat.
Last year, at least 62 coalition troops were killed by "insider attacks."
Two U.S. troops killed in apparent ‘insider’ attack by Afghan soldier
An Afghan National Police armored vehicle patrols on a street in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
August 26
KABUL — Two American service members were killed Wednesday in an apparent “insider” attack by an Afghan soldier at a military base in Afghanistan’s southwestern Helmand province, U.S. and Afghan officials reported.
In another development in Helmand, Taliban insurgents captured the province’s Musa Qala district after a clash with Afghan government forces, local officials said. They said 25 members of the security forces were killed in the fighting in the northern part of the province.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...8e4_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/two-coalition-soldiers-killed-at-base-in-afghanistan/2015/08/26/4a1a80e6-4bcf-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html)
Afghan Soldier Kills 3 Americans (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?467934-Afghan-Soldier-Kills-3-Americans&)
By Paul Sperry
October 28, 2017
Washington is a factory for dumb ideas, but taking the cake may be a US-based military training program for Afghan soldiers that not only can’t keep track of enrollees — 152 of whom have gone AWOL — but can’t even get the Afghan army to use those who actually graduate and return home.
The Pentagon says training Afghans in America is necessary to stand up an army in Afghanistan to fend off insurgents. Yet US-trained graduates aren’t even being re-absorbed by the Afghan military.
According to a new Defense Department report, “Afghan government policy does not require [National Defense and Security Forces] units to either return trainees to their previous position or provide them a position that may utilize the training received in the United States.”
Of the 152 AWOL Afghan trainees, 70 have either fled the US, mostly to Canada, and 13 remain unaccounted for. ICE has deemed Afghan trainees who have gone AWOL “to be high-risk because they involve militarily trained individuals of a fighting age who have demonstrated a ‘flight risk.’ ”
Do any have terrorist ties or sympathies? We really have no idea. That’s because vetting of enrollees is “limited” and the “processes for selecting personnel for training appear flawed,” the report found.
The Afghan trainees, who are given diplomatic visas, undergo no in-person interview or fingerprinting before they are brought into the US. And Kabul “is not enforcing” a program to pre-screen candidates for security risks.
Oct 28 2017, 8:24 am ET
U.S. Service Member Dies After Afghanistan Helicopter Crash, Six Others Injured
by Alastair Jamieson
A U.S. service member died from injuries sustained after a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday, while six others were receiving medical treatment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-service-member-dies-after-afghanistan-helicopter-crash-six-n815271
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10 year-old Afghan stabs US soldier in latest insider attack; Obama General talks winning (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?409528-10-year-old-Afghan-stabs-US-soldier-in-latest-insider-attack-Obama-General-talks-winning&)
Dunford admitted that attacks on the force by Afghan colleagues, like the stabbing of 26-year-old Sgt. Michael C. Cable by a 10-year-old Afghan boy with whom he was working earlier this week, have "absolutely" had an impact on the force. Dunford called such "blue-on-green incidents" a significant threat.
Last year, at least 62 coalition troops were killed by "insider attacks."
Two U.S. troops killed in apparent ‘insider’ attack by Afghan soldier
An Afghan National Police armored vehicle patrols on a street in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
August 26
KABUL — Two American service members were killed Wednesday in an apparent “insider” attack by an Afghan soldier at a military base in Afghanistan’s southwestern Helmand province, U.S. and Afghan officials reported.
In another development in Helmand, Taliban insurgents captured the province’s Musa Qala district after a clash with Afghan government forces, local officials said. They said 25 members of the security forces were killed in the fighting in the northern part of the province.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...8e4_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/two-coalition-soldiers-killed-at-base-in-afghanistan/2015/08/26/4a1a80e6-4bcf-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html)
Afghan Soldier Kills 3 Americans (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?467934-Afghan-Soldier-Kills-3-Americans&)