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Marja Residents Report Taliban Intimidation - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Taliban hit back in Marja

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  • “They have been involved in the area for a long time and they know how to intimidate people. They threaten them with beheadings, cutting off hands and feet, all the things they did when they were the government.”
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      The Taliban warned them of violent and barbaric actions if the residents continued to cooperate with the authorities
  • Journalists have still not been allowed to visit Marja independently, however; they must be embedded with the American military
  • Marja is meant to be a template for a similar campaign aimed for spring in neighboring Kandahar Province, the Taliban’s heartland
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NATO Aims to Recruit From Afghan South - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — Gen. David H. Petraeus, the overall commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, is moving to sharply increase Afghan police forces drawn from villages in southern provinces, and is employing the help of former mujahedeen commanders to recruit them
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      General David H. Petraeus became the commander of American Forces in Afghanistan in June 2010 after President Obama fired General Stanley
  • NATO officials
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      NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • The mujahedeen
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  • Afghan guerrilla fighters trained and backed by the United States to fight the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
  • mujahedeen
  • 30,000 local police officers within six months, providing a critical element to help the government and coalition forces hold on to areas newly cleared of Taliban insurgents
  • The police, meanwhile, have a reputation for poor discipline, drug abuse and corruption, and have proved easy prey for the Taliban.
  • “Then you partner it up effectively with I.S.A.F. and with the Afghan National Police, then you have got a very real possibility of keeping the Taliban out,” said Maj. Gen. Nick Carter, the departing British commander of coalition forces in the southern region,
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      I.S.A.F -International Security Assistance Force
  • General Petraeus had agreed with President Karzai to a pilot program of 10,000 such local Afghan policemen
  • Recruitment has already begun in some places to expand that plan
  • The plan has clear echoes of the Sons of Iraq, the neighborhood militias that helped turn around violence there.
  • American Marines holding Marja have been plagued by the reinfiltration of insurgents since the operation
  • Local police officers, trained and supervised by American Special Forces, are already operating in a number of places, including part of Marja and an area in Arghandab, and Special Forces units are already looking to recruit men in the newly cleared horn of Panjwai in Kandahar Province
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