The suicide-bomb slaughter at a tiny CIA Afghanistanborder camp was likely vengeance from a localTaliban tribal warlord who was once the agency's ally.Forward Operation Base Chapman in Khowst, where seven CIA officers died Wednesday, is a few miles from the ruins of Al Qaedacamps obliterated by U.S.missiles in a failed 1998 attempt to kill Osama Bin Laden.
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"If it wasn't personal before, it sure as hell is now," a furious counterterror official said Thursday.
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"This will be avenged through aggressive counterterror operations," an official said.
Witness Falluja.
Recruits to the Afghanistan army come from a world of desperate poverty. Many are malnourished and underweight and lack the upper body strength to manage the normal 50 lbs of equipment that American trainers expect them to use.[...]
While some 90,000 soldiers have been trained no one has reported of ever seeing such an army anywhere in Afghanistan.
The problem is that with 40% unemployment in the country, young men join up the paid training and disappear immediately after.
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Even with the lack of physical prowess, military trainers find the ANA and ANP recruits turning out in a steady flow, in some cases finding the same recruit, under a different name, receiving the same training for a second and even third round.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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