You Know All That Talk of Training The Afghan Police?

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unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
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Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: The US is looking for excuses to continue the occupation. File this under "Moving Goalposts".




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Danish MPs with a Police Operational Mentor and Liaison Team train with Afghan Police at Hohenfels, Germany, on Nov. 17, 2010.
Seth Robson/Stars and Stripes


NATO revises goal for police mentoring teams
By Seth Robson
Stars and Stripes
Published: November 19, 2010

HOHENFELS, Germany — NATO has scaled back its ambitions for police development teams after European nations failed to provide any of the 143 additional teams that the command in Afghanistan said it needed earlier this year.