Monday, January 4, 2010

British General says taliban must join security forces

What kind of drugs is this general hopped up on?

Eight CIA agents were killed by a suicide double agent bomber, a US soldier shot in the back by a rogue Afghan soldier who defected to the taliban after, and 5 British soldiers were killed by a Afghan soldier who sympathized with the taliban.

And the British general wants to integrate taliban fighters into the Afghan security forces?!?! This is absolute insanity! Telegraph

Taliban fighters who reconcile with the Afghan government must be allowed to join the police or army, a senior British general has told The Sunday Telegraph.

Major General Richard Barrons backs the move despite concerns that militants might use it as an opportunity to infiltrate the security services.[...]

Gen Barrons, who heads a newly-formed Nato unit seeking to reintegrate former insurgents, said he also expected to see Taliban commanders take senior positions within the President Hamid Karzai's administration in the future. He is hoping for "substantive delivery" in coaxing fighters to defect by late summer of this year.

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