Britain's Guardian newspaper on Tuesday quoted an unidentified official in Kandahar's local government as criticizing the first aid training, saying the Taliban did "not deserve to be treated like humans
Now, a Globe and Mail investigation of Brigade 888 has found evidence that Canadians lived beside, and helped to train, Afghans who routinely committed torture
Abdullah Nasrat, a Taliban commander in Nad Ali district where Marjah is located, told Reuters by telephone there were some 2,000 insurgents there ready to fight to the death.
"We are well prepared and will fight until the end. We don't have sophisticated weapons like the Americans with tanks and air planes, but we have Islamic zeal. That is the power we have to fight against the infidels," he said.
As the Taliban likes to say: "The Americans have the watches, but the Taliban has the time."
Speaking of looking like a tool, Weston suggests the government was “sacrificing Canadian lives to bring torture to Afghanistan”
Canadian military officers described some of the Afghan National Police to whom they turned over detainees in 2006 as unreliable thugs "no better than criminals" who kept order in the streets by hitting and punching people and had a reputation for mistreating prisoners, says a military board of inquiry report released Friday.
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A majority of Canadians oppose prolonging the country's military mission in Afghanistan, a new EKOS poll suggests. (EKOS)
Half of Canadians do not support the country's military being deployed to Afghanistan, and 60 per cent oppose extending the mission past its current end date of July 2011, a new poll suggests.
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