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ALP

Keeping control of bad choices

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AfPak Channel, 20 December 2011 ‘The Pentagon has just quietly released the redacted results of an inquiry into allegations of human rights abuses by U.S.-sponsored armed groups in Afghanistan’, the so-called ALP and others, writes Rachel Reid, co-author of Human Rights Ratch’s report ‘Just Don’t Call it a Militia’, published this past September. And she […]

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Trouble in Gizab; the fight everyone chose to ignore

Martine van Bijlert •

On 13 September 2011 a large convoy of armed men, accompanied by US Special Forces, travelled from the centre of Gizab to Tamazan, an area bordering Daikondi province. A murky chain of events led to a confused fight between what should have been friendly forces, in what should have been a stable area. By the […]

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The Enteqal Seven (7): Opportunities and Concerns in the North

Fabrizio Foschini •

More than one month has passed since Mazar-e Sharif was officially transitioned to the responsibility of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), along with the cities of Herat, Lashkargah and Mehtarlam, the provinces of Bamian and Panjshir, and most of Kabul. In the last of this series of blogs, AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini, with the help […]

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ALP programme might create a rude Afghan awakening

Thomas Ruttig •

Is the new Afghan Local Police one of the new silver bullets for successful transition or just a new militia? General Petraeus who designed the programme (after a similar one in Iraq) claims the first while some media already see abuses, as signs for the latter. But until recently, reports about such ‘ALP abuses’ were […]

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Dictatorship of Arbaki in Konduz province

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Suboot weekly (Kabul), 10 July 2011 The correspondents of this Afghan newspaper report from Kunduz that the speading ALP has’imposed fear and horror’ amongst the local population who only dare to speak anonymously. Then, they complain about forced payments of zakat, ALP involvement ‘in people’s transaction[s] including selling and buying of houses, land, commodities and […]

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When the police goes local; more on the Baghlan ALP

Gran Hewad •

AAN returns to the story of the local police (ALP) of Baghlan and particularly the group of Hezb-e Islami fighters who, supported by the US Special Forces, had reconciled and become local police in summer 2010, and were decimated in a Taleban attack in September. Some locals have accused this group of committing crimes. Others […]

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For a Handful of Dollars: Taleban allowed to join ALP

Kate Clark •

It’s official: reintegrated Taleban will be able to join the Afghan Local Police (ALP) – referred to more commonly by civilians as militias or arbaki. This is according to the head of ISAF’s Regional Command North (who also said such Taleban might become teachers). In flat contradiction, the MoI told AAN today that Taleban will […]

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The revolt of the good guys in Gizab

Martine van Bijlert •

A recent Washington Post article recounts how a group of local villagers in Gizab district revolted against the Taliban and kicked them out – with the help from US and Australian Special Forces. It reads as a good news story. A quoted US commander described the takeover as “perhaps the most important thing that has […]

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