U.S. military relies on Afghan police while working to clean them up

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U.S. military relies on Afghan police while working to clean them up
By Thomas L. Day, McClatchy Newspapers
Stars and Stripes online edition, Sunday, January 3, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan — A group Georgia National Guard soldiers joined Lt. Col. Mir Salam Adamkhil, a Kabul precinct chief, in his office Thursday. At first the conversation centered on small talk, mostly about the precinct chief's teenage sons, as the men sipped chai.

Then Staff Sgt. Josh Heaton opened a metal folder and flipped through a sheaf of paper marked "Secret."

"Ask him if he knows who this guy is?" Heaton told his interpreter as he underlined the name of an insurgent planning attacks on U.S. troops.

The precinct chief was very familiar with the name, and his expression changed: "If I see him, I will arrest him."

This was not the first time the group had approached the local police looking for intelligence. In fact, several soldiers from the 48th Brigade of the Georgia National Guard said they routinely rely on the police for ground intelligence on looming attacks.


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