U.S. plans to beef up rural police forces in Afghanistan

August 18, 2012 by legitgov

There's no money for Medicare, but: U.S. plans to beef up rural police forces in Afghanistan [so they can kill more US soldiers to 'justify' the need to give billions to US mercenary firms who train Afghan police to kill US soldiers. We can't get a road built or a bridge fixed on US soil because of the 'deficit.' Get it? Start reading.] 17 Aug 2012 The Obama administration plans to double the size of a rural police force in Afghanistan and arm it with heavier weapons to fight insurgents as U.S. troops withdraw, despite Pentagon and Afghan government concern about the village self-defense units becoming predatory criminal gangs or defecting to the Taliban. The danger was highlighted Friday when a new member of the Afghan Local Police shot and killed two U.S. special operations troops and wounded a third moments after they gave him his service weapon during a ceremony for new recruits in the western province of Farah.