Insurgents wearing US Army uniforms attack 2 NATO bases in east Afghanistan

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/August/international_August1550.xml§ion=international

(AP)

28 August 2010, 5:12 PM

Insurgents wearing US Army uniforms launched pre-dawn attacks Saturday on a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistan and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing. NATO said there were no coalition casualties and the attacks were repelled.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s presidential office condemned US media reports that Afghan government officials have received payments from the CIA in return for information.

A former US official told The Associated Press on Friday that the CIA has paid members of the Afghan government to track various factions within it. The practice has raised concerns at a time when the United States is pressing Afghan officials to make the government less corrupt.

[LooseWilly]

1. CIA paying members of the Afghan government? What could be wrong with that?

Don't people realize it's only "corruption" when governments take money from Non-US sources to behave contrarily to Afghan interests... when it comes from US sources- it's "patriotism". :tinfoilhat:

[Green_Lantern]

3. that's kind of a strawman

You're implying it's not considered corruption for the CIA to bribe Afghani officials yet Afghanistan's govt. arrested Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for Afghanistan's National Security Council,for such corruption.

[grahamhgreen]

2. Are our uniforms now made in China? Or did they buy or barter them from US suppliers?

[DavidDvorkin]

4. "Insurgents"

How Orwellian that usage is.