{"id":14039,"date":"2012-09-07T06:27:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T10:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2012-09-07T06:27:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T10:27:17","slug":"us-stops-training-afghan-forces-due-to-rise-in-insider-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/09\/us-stops-training-afghan-forces-due-to-rise-in-insider-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"US stops training Afghan forces due to rise in \u2018insider attacks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14040\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shirsoleiman20100728054738810.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14040\" title=\"shirsoleiman20100728054738810\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shirsoleiman20100728054738810.jpg?resize=450%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US-led forces in Afghanistan (file photo)v<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>The United States has stopped training Afghan forces due to rising incidents of the so-called insider attacks in Afghanistan<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">El <em>Washington Post<\/em> reports that the commander of the US Special Forces has suspended training for all new Afghan recruits until Afghan soldiers are re-investigated for their possible ties to Taliban militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The US daily says the re-vetting process will affect more than 27,000 Afghan troops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cWe have a very good vetting process,\u201d the paper quotes an unnamed senior special operations official as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cWhat we learned is that you just can\u2019t take it for granted. We probably should have had a mechanism to follow up with recruits from the beginning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Recently, the insider attacks by Afghan soldiers on US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan have increased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Afghan forces have killed at least 45 foreign forces, mostly US soldiers, in such attacks so far in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">On August 29, an Afghan soldier opened fire on a group of Australian troops in the southern district of Tarin Kowt, killing three of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Earlier in August, six US soldiers were killed in a series of such attacks in a single day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has expressed deep concern about the rise in the insider attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2012\/09\/02\/259433\/us-stops-training-afghan-troops-report\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has stopped training Afghan forces due to rising incidents of the so-called insider attacks in Afghanistan The Washington Post reports that the..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,189,97],"tags":[295,197,226],"class_list":["post-14039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-us-military","category-us-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shirsoleiman20100728054738810_14039_0abfb.jpg?fit=450%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}