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WORLD NEWS TOMORROW ? KABUL, Afghanistan ? United States military officials have suspended the training of Afghan Local Police (ALP) in the wake of a deadly series of so-called ?green on blue? attacks by Afghan soldiers and police on their international allies.
In a statement late Saturday, Col. Thomas Collins, US Forces Afghanistan spokesperson, said the training has been put on hold in order to carry out intensified vetting procedures on new recruits. While we have full trust and confidence in our Afghan partners, we believe this is a necessary step to validate our vetting process and ensure the quality indicative of Afghan Local Police,? he said in the statement.
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Forty-five allied troops have been killed in 34 ?insider? attacks this year alone.The Afghan army is implicated in 19 of those attacks, but their training will not be halted.Many of the ?insider? incidents might have been prevented if existing security measures had been applied correctly, according to the Washington Post which first reported the training suspension.
Last week, an Afghan soldier shot and killed two American soldiers on Monday during a dispute in Laghman province in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Aug 19 to express concern over the issue, urging him to work with U.S. commanders to ensure more rigorous vetting of Afghan recruits. Panetta?s intervention followed the 10th death of a U.S. service member at the hands of Afghan recruit in the space of just two weeks.
Operations by already-trained recruits? numbering some 20,000 and the recruiting of new members will continue, and the decision affects about 1,000 current ALP trainees, the statement said.
?Despite the recent rise in insider attacks, they are relatively rare,? the statement added. ALP training is a U.S. mission, carried out by Special Forces. Training of uniformed police and army personnel is done under the banner of the NATO operation.
Source: http://www.worldnewstomorrow.com/?p=3069
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