Corruption Undercuts US Hope for Afghan Police

Written on April 9, 2009 by admin

from NY Times by Richard A. Oppel Jr. If the experience of the American troops already training police officers in Ghazni Province is any indication, better policing may be impossible for Afghanistan unless government officials at all levels stop cannibalizing their civil administration and police force for a quick profit. In two weeks of interviews in this mountainous region of poor farmers and shepherds, exasperated American soldiers said it was hard to determine which was their more dauntin

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