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  • Afghan police force is weak link for country 21 Nov 2009 08:47 GMT
    ... An Afghan policeman adjusts his colleague's weapon at a checkpoint in Kabul. Afghanistan's 93,000-member ... that concern as part of its new war strategy. Meanwhile, a suspected U.S. missile strike ... more likely to be killed than Afghan soldiers. From January 2007 to July of this ...

  • Afghan police are weak link in security force 21 Nov 2009 00:12 GMT
    ... photo, An Afghan policeman adjust his colleagues weapon at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan. Underpaid, ... remedied, said Cordesman, Afghanistan "risks losing the war." Police on the street and manning checkpoints ... more likely to be killed than Afghan soldiers. From January 2007 to July this year, ...

  • Police weak link in Afghan security force 21 Nov 2009 05:59 GMT
    ... remedied, said Cordesman, Afghanistan "risks losing the war." Police on the street and manning checkpoints ... more likely to be killed than Afghan soldiers. From January 2007 to July this year, ... would be no need for more sophisticated weapons if we did not need to fight ...

  • Police shortcomings weaken Afghanistan security 21 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... remedied, said Cordesman, Afghanistan "risks losing the war." Police on the street and manning checkpoints ... more likely to be killed than Afghan soldiers. From January 2007 to July this year, ... would be no need for more sophisticated weapons if we did not need to fight ...

  • 'CoD ' gets real: Special Forces soldier gives shooter a thumbs up 21 Nov 2009 18:19 GMT
    ... ‘CoD ‘ gets real: Special Forces soldier gives shooter a thumbs up Stars and ... deployed Special Forces unit. I joined the Army as a paratrooper and served with the ... developers said they spent time shooting actual weapons to get the recoil, look and sounds ...

  • Afghan police weak link in security force 21 Nov 2009 05:56 GMT
    ... for the police you have for the army," said military analyst Anthony Cordesman. "The leadership ... more likely to be killed than Afghan soldiers. From January 2007 to July this year, ... would be no need for more sophisticated weapons if we did not need to fight ...

  • One year to turn Afghanistan around, Hillier says 21 Nov 2009 16:53 GMT
    ... Afghan police officers sort through weapons surrendered by around 80 former Taliban fighters ... effort could be lost, Canada's former top soldiers says. Gen. Rick Hillier, the former chief ... assessment is that America is losing this war," said Sethi. ...

  • Canadian, Afghan forces capture key village 21 Nov 2009 17:15 GMT
    ... Afghan National Army in the village of Nakhonay in Panjawai ... who were prepared to lay down their arms will be given a chance to become ...

  • Grieving families bid farewell to soldiers 21 Nov 2009 01:18 GMT
    ... DISTRAUGHT relatives of a Territorial Army soldier who was killed in Afghanistan watched as ... Group, died as a result of small arms fire near Sangin, in central Helmand province, ...

  • Afghan child killed while planting bomb: govt 21 Nov 2009 11:57 GMT
    ... KABUL (AFP) – A 13-year-old Afghan forced by militants to plant a roadside ... impossible to detect -- have become the weapon of choice for Taliban rebels, who are ... virulent insurgency across have more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban as US President ...

  • While the White House dithers, a new idea for Afghanistan 21 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
    ... “A-team” in Konar Province in 2003. His soldiers briefly became part of the Pashtun tribal ... had more than 5,000 tribal fighters under arms. But US officials began to worry that ... ally against Al-Qaeda, to lay down its weapons. Unfortunately, this top-down strategy left the tribes ...

  • As Afghans Resist Taliban, U.S. Spurs Rise of Militias 21 Nov 2009 17:31 GMT
    ... ACHIN, Afghanistan - American and Afghan officials have ... anti- militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of , ... being carried out by American Special Forces soldiers, is to set up or expand the ...

  • Plymouth honors a fallen soldier 21 Nov 2009 05:55 GMT
    ... PLYMOUTH — His family, friends and fellow soldiers bid farewell Friday to Army Sgt. Benjamin ... the walls of his church, in the arms of God." Mendes, who left the Plymouth ...

  • Six Pakistani troops, 14 Taliban killed in clashes - Summary 21 Nov 2009 13:10 GMT
    ... Islamabad - At least 14 militants and six soldiers, were killed Saturday in the latest fighting ... found trenches and recovered huge caches of arms and ammunition. The soldiers fought "an intense ...

  • Six soldiers, 14 Taliban killed in Pakistan 21 Nov 2009 15:15 GMT
    ... Islamabad, Nov 21 (DPA) At least 14 militants and six soldiers were killed Saturday in the latest fighting ... found trenches and recovered huge caches of arms and ammunition. The soldiers fought "an intense ...


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