Afghan police helped taliban attack US soldiers

Back in July, the taliban had launched a large and well coordinated attack on an American outpost in eastern Afghanistan that resulted in 9 American deaths. It turns out that the taliban had help from senior a Afghan police officer and a Afghan politician.

There should be a vetting process to determine what ideologies Afghan police members, army members and politicians have. If they did check I would be afraid to ask how many buy into the taliban's ideology. Press Trust of India

New York, Nov 4 (PTI) An internal review by the US army has found that a senior Afghan police officer and a political leader helped Taliban militants carry out an attack in which nine American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, a media report said today.
Afghan and the US forces had started building the makeshift base just five days before the attack on July 13, and villagers repeatedly warned the American troops that militants were plotting a strike, the report found.

The warnings did not include details and the troops never anticipated such a large and well-coordinated attack, the New York Times reported.

The assault involved some 200 fighters, nearly three times the number of Americans and Afghans defending the site.

As evidence of collusion between the district police chief and the Taliban, the Times says, the report cited large stocks of weapons and ammunition that were found in the police barracks in the adjacent village of Wanat after the attackers were repelled.

The stocks were more than the local 20-officer force would be likely to need, and many of the weapons were dirty and appeared to have been used recently. The police officers were found dressed in "crisp, clean new uniforms," the report said, and were acting "as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred," the Times added.