Post-mortem background checks

| April 1, 2012

On Friday, I wrote about an Afghan by the name of Asadullah who gunned down nine of his fellow Afghanistan National Army soldiers at an outpost, then stolen their weapons and drove off into the night. Well, it seems that now, after the fact, Afghan officials have decided to do a background check on him according t the Washington Post. It turns out that when he was 19 little Asadullah cooperated with the Taliban when they plotted to kill his father, Ehsanullah;

Before the Taliban finalized its assassination plans, fighters met with then-18-year-old Asadullah. He had already begun talking about the value of defeating U.S. and Afghan forces and rebelling against his father’s politics, officials said. Some local residents considered Asadullah a peripheral Taliban member from his early teenage years. When insurgents informed him of the plans to murder his father, Asadullah “granted them approval,” according to a U.S. official who had been briefed by Afghan security and intelligence personnel.

After Ehsanullah was killed, “we told [Asadullah] that his father was a martyr, but he refused to accept that. He said his father was vile. I could tell then that he was a traitor,” Mohammed said.

Now here they find this out just by doing a background check a few days after Asadullah did the deed. It seems to me they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by doing this sort of investigation before he murdered his brother soldiers. But, that’s just me.

Category: Terror War

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Hondo

Well, I guess that’s one way to inherit the family business on your own schedule . . . .

DaveO

Between 1/3 and 1/4 of my ANA were Taliban, taliban, HiG, or criminals. Kinda helps to G2 your Afghan troops.

PintoNag

What is the saying? Better to have one soldier behind enemy lines, than 10,000 in front of them?

Cedo Alteram

Great article.

Can I call it or what? This is almost exactly what I outlined in the comment section on the last post, even the local unit type. This guy was someone who was scooped up into the local “ALP” who shouldn’t have been. Even if he could be reintegrated into society he should never have been recruited into the police force. I mean the guy not only conspired to kill his own father but was a Taliban commander!

From the article “Meanwhile, NATO and Afghan forces worked to track down Asadullah. On Sunday morning, officials said they had located him. After a series of betrayals and twisted vendettas, they began planning the final retribution.” good, liquidation begin.

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