WASHINGTON—Inspectors from a U.S. government watchdog agency discovered that several American-funded border police bases in Afghanistan have been largely abandoned or left unoccupied, raising questions about the coming hand-over of security duties to local forces.
Among other findings, inspectors found that one base, Lal Por 2, wasn't being used by Afghan border forces because it had no water supply, a report due out Monday states. A second, Nazyan, "may soon be uninhabitable" because of shoddy construction that caused sewage overflow.
All told, the new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found most of the facilities on three of the four bases that it inspected—each built to house 93 border police personnel—"were either unoccupied or weren't used for the intended purposes."
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If they abandon their bases then how can they be trusted to guard the CIA's poppy fields?
ReplyDeleteBetter keep some Amerikan Soldiers there are risk the loss of an entire crop!
The Muslim People will destroy those poppies in short order. They don't believe in the drug trade. Under the Taliban heroine production had slowed to a crawl.
ReplyDeleteThis is why it was necessary to take over the Country. The CIA has made a fortune off heroine since 2003.