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Well, Trump supporters will love this one. WINGERS love 'punishment', abuse, TORTURE. Too bad it ALWAYS backfires. I assume from this the CIA is training Afghani 'fighters' and teaching them abuse and torture as tactics to 'quell' or control the local citizenry or to out the bad guys among them.
Axios7 hours ago
CIA undermining the U.S. mission in Afghanistan with abuse, torture
A protest in Kabul over the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Photo: Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images
"C.I.A.'s Afghan Forces Leave a Trail of Abuse and Anger," writes Mujib Mashal, the New York Times' senior correspondent in Afghanistan.
Details: "The fighters hold the line in the war's toughest spots, but officials say their brutal tactics are terrorizing the public and undermining the U.S. mission."
CIA undermining the U.S. mission in Afghanistan with abuse, torture
A protest in Kabul over the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Photo: Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images
"C.I.A.'s Afghan Forces Leave a Trail of Abuse and Anger," writes Mujib Mashal, the New York Times' senior correspondent in Afghanistan.
Details: "The fighters hold the line in the war's toughest spots, but officials say their brutal tactics are terrorizing the public and undermining the U.S. mission."
- [T]he units have ... operated unconstrained by battlefield rules designed to protect civilians, conducting night raids, torture and killings with near impunity."
- "And with only a relatively small American troop contingent left ... the strike forces are increasingly the way that a large number of rural Afghans experience the American presence."
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