7/31/13, "Pentagon: ‘Insider Attacks’ in Afghanistan on Coalition Forces Spiking," Washington Free Beacon, Adam Kredo
"New report shows attacks increased by 120 percent between 2011 and 2012."
"So-called “insider attacks” on coalition forces in Afghanistan have sharply increased and become more coordinated as America pulls out of the country, jumping by 120 percent from 2011 to 2012 alone, according to Pentagon report released Tuesday.
Afghans with ties to terrorists continue to infiltrate the security forces and carry out planned attacks against U.S. soldiers and other forces, according to an unclassified Pentagon report.
These deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers have only increased and become more sophisticated as the Obama administration continues its exit from the war-torn nation, the Pentagon reported.
“There was a 120 percent increase in insider attacks from 2011 to 2012, rising from 22 to 48 incidents,” the report states. “Additionally, 29 percent (14) of the insider attacks in 2012 were executed by more than one person. Prior to 2012, only two attacks had been executed by more than one individual.”
There have been 172 “insider attacks” on U.S., Afghan, and coalition
military forces from Jan. 1, 2007 to March 31, 2013, according to the
report. More than 100 of these attacks were carried out against the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which includes U.S.
forces. Seventy attacks were launched directly on U.S. personnel, the report states.
More than 140 ISAF personnel were killed during these attacks, while another 208 were wounded.
U.S. forces suffered 92 casualties from these insider attacks, while another 134 were wounded, according to the report.
The United States has spent $54 billion in total to arm, train, and sustain Afghanistan’s security forces, including purchasing more than $1 billion in bullets for the Afghan National Army (ANA.)
The Pentagon also found that the ISAF had incorrectly tallied past attacks, leading officials to underreport the number of dead and injured.
“ISAF reassessed its historical attack database, looking for incidents that were actually insider attacks but had been incorrectly categorized,” the report says.
This resulted in “an increase of the previously reported total number of insider attacks over the 2007-2012 period.”
Eleven incidents from 2007 to 2012 were “reclassified as insider attacks,” while another three from 2013 were added, according to the report.
Most of these insider attacks were carried out by those with ties to terrorists or by individuals who felt that Western forces had disrespected their religion, the Pentagon found.
“Roughly half of the attacks in 2012 involved some level of insurgent links, with a third of those only making contact with insurgents after their attack,” the report says, noting that none of the attacks could be attributed to “personal disagreements.”
Afghan troops have attacked coalition forces for numerous “cultural insults,” according to the report. These include “the mishandling of religious materials, an incident in which coalition forces showed disrespect to insurgent remains, and the release of inflammatory religious videos and cartoons,” according to the Pentagon.
Eighty percent of these attacks were carried out against coalition force, ANSF forces, or on joint bases. Twenty percent took place during joint patrols, according to the report. “The majority of attackers were between 17 and 25 years old,” the Pentagon found.
Additionally, “most attacks occurred in the provinces that contain high numbers of coalition forces and are the centers of traditional areas of insurgent strength within the Pashtun belts,” according to the report. Attackers chose their victims randomly, “not on the basis of their rank or position” in most cases. Following the “spike” in insider attacks in 2012, coalition forces implemented several new “counterintelligence” protocols.
Intelligence teams were assembled to “vet, collect, analyze and interview persons of interest and to exploit biometric data, documents and media,” according to the Pentagon. These new methods have helped forces “detect and neutralize” 94 “insider threats,” the report found. Nine of these would-be terrorists had “insurgent ties,” while another 85 “posed an insider threat,” according to the report." via Atlas Shrugs
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"Wear surgical gloves whenever handling a copy of the Koran."... "“The Afghans that know we’re doing all this PC cultural sensitivity crap are laughing their asses off at our stupidity.”"
More than 140 ISAF personnel were killed during these attacks, while another 208 were wounded.
U.S. forces suffered 92 casualties from these insider attacks, while another 134 were wounded, according to the report.
The United States has spent $54 billion in total to arm, train, and sustain Afghanistan’s security forces, including purchasing more than $1 billion in bullets for the Afghan National Army (ANA.)
The Pentagon also found that the ISAF had incorrectly tallied past attacks, leading officials to underreport the number of dead and injured.
“ISAF reassessed its historical attack database, looking for incidents that were actually insider attacks but had been incorrectly categorized,” the report says.
This resulted in “an increase of the previously reported total number of insider attacks over the 2007-2012 period.”
Eleven incidents from 2007 to 2012 were “reclassified as insider attacks,” while another three from 2013 were added, according to the report.
Most of these insider attacks were carried out by those with ties to terrorists or by individuals who felt that Western forces had disrespected their religion, the Pentagon found.
“Roughly half of the attacks in 2012 involved some level of insurgent links, with a third of those only making contact with insurgents after their attack,” the report says, noting that none of the attacks could be attributed to “personal disagreements.”
Afghan troops have attacked coalition forces for numerous “cultural insults,” according to the report. These include “the mishandling of religious materials, an incident in which coalition forces showed disrespect to insurgent remains, and the release of inflammatory religious videos and cartoons,” according to the Pentagon.
Eighty percent of these attacks were carried out against coalition force, ANSF forces, or on joint bases. Twenty percent took place during joint patrols, according to the report. “The majority of attackers were between 17 and 25 years old,” the Pentagon found.
Additionally, “most attacks occurred in the provinces that contain high numbers of coalition forces and are the centers of traditional areas of insurgent strength within the Pashtun belts,” according to the report. Attackers chose their victims randomly, “not on the basis of their rank or position” in most cases. Following the “spike” in insider attacks in 2012, coalition forces implemented several new “counterintelligence” protocols.
Intelligence teams were assembled to “vet, collect, analyze and interview persons of interest and to exploit biometric data, documents and media,” according to the Pentagon. These new methods have helped forces “detect and neutralize” 94 “insider threats,” the report found. Nine of these would-be terrorists had “insurgent ties,” while another 85 “posed an insider threat,” according to the report." via Atlas Shrugs
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"Wear surgical gloves whenever handling a copy of the Koran."... "“The Afghans that know we’re doing all this PC cultural sensitivity crap are laughing their asses off at our stupidity.”"
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"'Friendly' fire attacks have killed dozens of our heroes. The Pentagon's response? Ordering sensitivity training about Islam"
Afghan security forces, our supposed allies, are slaughtering American troops. Thirty-three soldiers have been killed by “green on blue” attacks this year alone. The situation is so bad that the training of Afghan forces has been temporarily suspended.
How has the Pentagon responded?
By blaming our troops.
Top officials believe culturally offensive behavior is the motivation behind the killings, so it’s stepped up Islamic sensitivity training for our troops.
If you don’t want to be shot in the back by your Afghan training partners, the Pentagon advises, don’t offend their religious sensibilities. Don’t kick your feet up on a table, for instance, and never ask to see a picture of their wives and kids. “There’s a percentage [of attacks] which are cultural affronts,” Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said in a recent interview.
Dempsey echoes the concerns of Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, the Afghan National Army’s chief of staff, who earlier this month argued both sides need to do more to “teach” foreign troops Islamic traditions and values to reduce the chance of violent reactions to cultural slights.
“It is our duty to teach this to them. Our indifference about these issues causes the incident,” he said. In the past three years, uniformed Afghans have murdered at least 97 US and NATO troops.
The Taliban has taken credit for many of the attacks, but the Pentagon has been reluctant to admit widespread infiltration of the Afghan security forces it’s training.
Standing up a national army and police force that can protect the US-sponsored government in Kabul is the linchpin of President Obama’s announced 2014 withdrawal strategy.
Some 120,000 American and other foreign troops mix closely with 350,000 Afghan security forces. Afghan trainees and guards are co-located on US bases, where they share bathrooms, gyms and mess halls.
To avoid offending them, US commanders are putting troops through intense Muslim sensitivity training. Among other things, they’ve been ordered to:
* Wear surgical gloves whenever handling a copy of the Koran.
* Never walk in front of a praying Muslim.
* Never show the bottom of boots while sitting or lying across from a Muslim, which in Islam is considered an insult.
* Never share photos of wives or daughters.
* Never smoke or eat in front of Muslims during the monthlong Ramadan fasting.
* Avoid winking, cursing or nose-blowing in the presence of Muslims — all viewed as insults in Islam.
* Avoid exiting the shower without a towel.
* Avoid offering and accepting things with the left hand, which in Islam is reserved for bodily hygiene and considered unclean.
Troops who violate the sensitivity rules face severe punishment.
Military officials who have done tours in Afghanistan are outraged that brass would even suggest US troops are partly to blame for their own murders.
“I would like to see a public affairs officer explain to the press where showing the bottom of your shoe to a Muslim or shaking with your left hand was legitimate grounds for murder,” growled one US Army official.
They say their Muslim partners would still resent them even if they followed their Islamic protocols to the letter.
“The cultural affronts excuse is a bunch of garbage,” a senior US Army intelligence official told me.
“The Afghans that know we’re doing all this PC cultural sensitivity crap are laughing their asses off at our stupidity.”
Explained the intelligence official: “They’re killing us because we’re ‘infidels’ occupying Islamic lands. It’s what the Koran and every imam over there is telling them, and no amount of cultural sensitivity is going to stop that or change the fact that we’re ‘infidels.’ ”
Indeed, a Taliban video released last month revealed uniformed Afghans are itching for a chance to “kill infidels.”
“I opened fire on three Americans who were sitting together,” a rogue Afghan soldier, identified as Ghazi Mahmood, says while smiling for the camera. “The reason I killed them is because they have occupied our country. They are enemies of our religion.”
Internally, the military has acknowledged the larger religious problem. A May 2011 study commissioned by the US Army says “fratricidal” assaults by uniformed Afghans stem in part from Afghan religious attitudes that their American counterparts are “infidel bullies.” (The same report says US troops regarded their Afghan training partners as “treacherous and murderous radicals” secretly colluding with the Taliban.)
Further
pointing up the absurdity of putting troops through Islamic finishing
school: The intelligence official notes that if there are any truly
obnoxious cultural offenses, they are committed by Afghan trainees
quartered inside our bases.
“They like to stand on our toilets and poop all over them,” he said.
Why? They refuse to touch the toilet seats used by the “dirty infidels” they’re training and living with.
Paul Sperry is a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration.”" via commenter at Atlas Shrugs
Image of US military women in hijabs via Stars and Stripes, 10/9/2010, "A woman's touch,"
"Engagement teams make inroads with Afghanistan’s female community,"
Seth Robson (more photos at link showing US women in Afghan towns)“They like to stand on our toilets and poop all over them,” he said.
Why? They refuse to touch the toilet seats used by the “dirty infidels” they’re training and living with.
Paul Sperry is a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration.”" via commenter at Atlas Shrugs
Image of US military women in hijabs via Stars and Stripes, 10/9/2010, "A woman's touch,"
"Engagement teams make inroads with Afghanistan’s female community,"
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Comment: Nothing the US has done since 911 has actually been a war. All of these things have been business deals to rob Americans blind. Neither Bush nor Obama has cared how many Americans are killed or maimed.
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