US suspends training of Afghan local police force
The ALP is a militia, set up two years ago by US Forces, in villages where the national police force -- a separate body trained by NATO -- is weak. The ALP has been beset by allegations of abuse and widespread corruption.
Rogue shootings have killed 45 NATO-led troops so far this year, 15 last month alone, despite the coalition taking steps to try prevent them, such as requiring foreign soldiers to carry loaded weapons at all times.
In a statement, US Forces said they will temporarily suspend training of about 1,000 new ALP recruits while they re-vet members currently belonging to the 16,000-strong force.
"We believe this is a necessary step to validate our vetting process and ensure the quality indicative of Afghan Local Police," it said.
A member of the ALP shot dead two troops from US Special Forces last month.
Other rogue attacks, such as the killing of three Australian troops this week, were carried out by men wearing the uniforms of the 350,000-strong Afghan army and police, trained by NATO.
The ALP is a flagship project of US General David Petraeus, who was replaced last year by US General John Allen as commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan.
Allen has said he believes around a quarter of insider killings are carried out by the Taliban who have managed to infiltrate Afghan security forces. The rest are sparked by other reasons, such as personal grudges.
The insider killings are particularly troubling as security transition plans gather pace. Under those plans, all foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
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At least now US' and NATO's forces must have to leave Afghanistan because now current Afghanistan's positions have been changed instead of showing contrary to stay in Afghanistan till 2014......
Indeed the lack of foresight and intelligence of the US has been exposed yet again for the whole world to see.
The whole initiative was blemish from the very beginning. This was nothing but arming the people to fight the people, ultimately paving the way for a civil war. Even though, the move has been taken to save their own troops, yet, it also prevents a big security catastrophe for Afghanistan that may have come about beyond 2014. Hope the US abandon this program for ever.
It's time for Mouth Commandos in liberal community to join the battle and fight against Talibans