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Afghans trained by Blackwater defect to Taliban
Remember when Sarah Palin said that "the surge principles that have worked in Iraq need to be implemented in Afghanistan." Well...as Ms. Palin would say, many Afghans working for the Afghan security forces are now switching sides and are now defecting to the Taliban.
Guess who trained many of them? Blackwater!
An Aljazeera producer was able to interview some of those defectors who were unafraid to reveal their identities and were not bashful about their Blackwater issued IDs.
Afghanistan is not Iraq. The surge methods will not work in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai's government is on the verge of collapse and it will be hard paying off the Taliban not to attack its forces.