Crooked Afghan Police Challenge Marines: ; Some Padded Salaries by Demanding Bribes at Gunpoint
Charleston Daily Mail › July 14, 2009
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AYNAK, Afghanistan - Afghan villagers had complained to the U.S. Marines for days: The police are the problem, not the Taliban. They steal from villagers and beat them. Days later, the Marines learned firsthand what the villagers meant.
As about 150 Marines and Afghan soldiers approached the police headquarters in the Helmand River town of Aynak, the police fired four gunshots at the combined force. No larger fight broke out, but once inside the headquarters the Marines found a raggedy force in a decrepit mud-brick compound that the police used as an open-pit toilet.See the full content of this document
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Crooked Afghan Police Challenge Marines: ; Some Padded Salaries by Demanding Bribes at Gunpoint
The meeting was tense. Some police were smoking pot. Others loaded their guns in a threatening manner near the Marines.
The U.S. troops ousted the police two da...See the full content of this document
