Afghanistan:Taliban Spy Slows Afghan progress

by Barry Artiste | March 29, 2008 at 08:47 pm | 415 views | 2 comments

Afghanistan:Taliban Need to be Eliminated

Certainly tragic when after 8 months to learn your Police co-worker is actually a Taliban spy who kills two of your own unsuspecting men while guarding a Power Plant for thousands of citizens for your region and the end result is a blown up Power Plant and as such has not been back in operation since November during a bitterly cold winter, and with no end in sight if it will ever be repaired. Again it is the innocents who suffer at the hands of the Taliban and our efforts to help are being constantly destroyed.

Potent Taliban insurgency slows Afghan progressCoalition countries restless as NATO leaders meet in Bucharest to consider means to ending woesMike Blanchfield, Canwest News ServicePublished: Saturday, March 29, 2008
QALAT, Afghanistan -- They had no idea they had a traitor in their midst until the bullets started flying.

The Taliban spy was one of the 11 Afghans wearing a police uniform. They were charged with guarding the most modern facility here, a 13-month-old, American-built electricity plant that -- until this explosive November night --pumped out power to tens of thousands in a dusty corner of the impoverished and war-torn southern province of Zabul.

With the help of an insurgent who infiltrated the local police force, the Taliban attacked the plant, taking dead aim at the generators. Eight remaining police officers repelled their attackers, as their infiltrator fled into the night with his Taliban comrades. But the cost was high. Two police officers lay dead, while one bullet-riddled generator was knocked out. It has not worked since."That guy worked here for seven or eight months," said Mohammad Salim, the plant director. "He killed two of his own guys. If he gets caught, he has to be executed.