CIA Afghan paramilitary force hunts militants

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

CIA Afghan paramilitary force hunts militants
By KIMBERLY DOZIER (AP) – 31 minutes ago

KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. official in Washington says the CIA is running an all-Afghan paramilitary group in Afghanistan that has been hunting Taliban and al-Qaida targets for the agency.

A security professional in Kabul familiar with the operation says the 3,000-strong force was set up in 2002 to capture targets for CIA interrogation. Both sources spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.

As first reported in a new book by Bob Woodward, "Obama's Wars," the paramilitary unit, called the Counterterrorist Protection Team, operates in violence-wracked provinces including Kandahar, Paktia and Paktika.


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[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[sabra]

2. kick

:kick:

[davepc]

3. It was more honest when they just called them Death Squads

[Kolesar]

4. I would have presumed that we were doing something like that

It is too bad that incompetent Rumsfeld, Cheney, Mueller and bush were running it during the critical years.