Australian police help build secret hit lists

[harvey007]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

AUSTRALIAN police in Afghanistan have helped compile secret intelligence files on insurgent leaders later targeted in capture-or-kill missions by special forces soldiers.

The Pentagon has confirmed that Australian Federal Police officers are ''assigned to work with'' a joint police task force in Kabul that produces files used by military commanders to "shape the battlefield" - a term often used to describe the capture-or-kill raids mounted by elite troops in Afghanistan.

While Australian police are officially not allowed to contribute intelligence for military purposes, in reality they have little control over who uses the information they help compile.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-police-help-build-secret-hit-lists-20101226-197wg.html

[Downwinder]

1. ''develop an intelligence profile of the networks and the drug kingpins''.

It has worked so well in the War on Drugs. So why are they still incarcerating users?

[Swagman]

2. if the Australian Federal Police are involved expect innocents

to suffer. They have an appalling record. and are hated by state police who regard them as 'cowboys'.

[Tanelorn]

3. Great to see more Australian news hitting the DU pages.

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