Posted on 10/06/2016 7:51:56 AM PDT by mandaladon
In an effort to find illegal work and settle permanently in America, at least 44 Afghan troops visiting the US for military training have gone missing since January 2015, Pentagon officials said. It raises concerns about procedures for such programs. Eight Afghan troops have left military bases without authorization since September alone, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump told Reuters, disclosing the total number of Afghan troops who have gone missing for the first time.
“The Defense Department is assessing ways to strengthen eligibility criteria for training in ways that will reduce the likelihood of an individual Afghan willingly absconding from training in the US and going AWOL [absent without leave],” Stump said.
The Afghan Army has previously been occasionally infiltrated by Taliban militants who carried out attacks on Afghan and US troops. Rogue shootings of foreign troops claimed lives of nearly 40 soldiers in several dozen attacks in 2012.
Before being allowed into the US, Afghans are carefully vetted for security reasons, to make sure they have not been involved in human rights abuses and are not affiliated with militant groups, the Pentagon spokesman said.
Some 2,200 Afghan troops have received military training in the United States since 2007. Other foreign troops on US military training visits have sometimes run away too, but a US defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the frequency of Afghan troops going missing was concerning and “out of the ordinary.”
According to the official, there was no evidence any of those who had run away had carried out crimes or posed a threat to America.
Since 2002, Washington has earmarked over $60 billion “to build, equip, train, and sustain” the Afghan troops, a quarterly report by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in late July.
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“Liberals always think money is the solution to every problem!”
And the corollary is they think the LACK of money is CAUSE of every problem.
Occam’s Razor says they’re being imported to conduct terrorist attacks against Americans.
You can take a Haji out of a sh*thole. But you can’t take the jihad out of a Haji
Absolutely. Train them on a ship at sea; why bring them to our shores; they cannot be of enough value to our true purposes.
Not theirs however, YOURS!
Chances are that only 4 or 5 of them will go jihadi on us....
According to the official, there was no evidence any of those who had run away had carried out crimes or posed a threat to America.
No evidence of threat but it is concerning....ok.
The amusing thing is that they will all go out and pretend to be latinos, and maybe even get registered to vote.
If it were my army I would not think twice about rejecting any Afghan application to serve in the armed forces of the United States. Same would go for Saudi, Syrian and Iranian applicants. Shoot. Make it any Muslim applicant. Not in my army.
400 a day obama dirtbags
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/obama-state-department-bringing-refugees-in-at-the-astronomical-rate-of-over-400-a-day/
They’re somewhere assembling the nuke Iran has been sending over piece by piece in diplomatic shipments, probably in the basement of that big mosque in DC. My son, daughter-in-law and new grandson are living within the crater that it will cause.
Which is exactly what would have been said about the 9/11 Jihadis had their pre-attack activities come to light.
They are probably volunteering at a soup kitchen and helping the homeless.
They’ll gather somewhere and reappear for their murderous jihad. BUT DON’T CALL THEM MUSLIM RADICALS!!
Is America the only army in history who has trained the enemy who will destroy us? (outside of Civil war.)
Always consider who America’s “leaders” are, today.
Always consider who America’s “leaders” are, today. They fight the ‘radical’ muslim at the front door and allow mulims inside the house through the kitchen door knowing full well that a muzzie is a muzzie, radicalized or not.
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