Daily Mail UK
A former senior UN official has spoken of his concern that the Taliban has infiltrated the Afghan police and army.
Former executive director of the UN's Office of Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan, Antonio Maria Costa said Taliban sleeper cells had been set up inside the security forces.
According to Dr Costa the Taliban have already carried out a number of attacks and have scheduled further hits on Nato-led troops.
He said: 'We have plenty of evidence we had a number of suicide attacks carried out by people who had been trusted because they were affiliated to either the army or the police.
'Certainly there are sleeping cells, certainly there are individuals who are waiting for instruction to hit and that is one of the biggest problem, which we have seen in Afghanistan as of late.'
The comments come just as the coalition prepares to cede control of the country's security - the transfer should be complete by by 2014 - and the Taliban continue to bristle with intent.
A former senior UN official has spoken of his concern that the Taliban has infiltrated the Afghan police and army.
Former executive director of the UN's Office of Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan, Antonio Maria Costa said Taliban sleeper cells had been set up inside the security forces.
According to Dr Costa the Taliban have already carried out a number of attacks and have scheduled further hits on Nato-led troops.
He said: 'We have plenty of evidence we had a number of suicide attacks carried out by people who had been trusted because they were affiliated to either the army or the police.
'Certainly there are sleeping cells, certainly there are individuals who are waiting for instruction to hit and that is one of the biggest problem, which we have seen in Afghanistan as of late.'
The comments come just as the coalition prepares to cede control of the country's security - the transfer should be complete by by 2014 - and the Taliban continue to bristle with intent.
2 comments:
Like that's a surprise!
Are any Westerners the least bit shocked? God help us if they are. Sheesh.
They just now noticed???
The best we can hope for there is to separate AQ from the Afghanis and kill them, pay off the Afghan chieftans to keep AQ out or drop a dime to us if they come back.
Wiping out the Taliban is a pipe dream.
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