Important DEVELOPMENT, IN INFO WAR

Important DEVELOPMENT, IN INFO WAR
UNCONFIRMED....

MS Windows to Pashto language.

Finally, they found the man they were looking for: Habib-ur-Rahman, a computer programmer and government employee. Rahman was responsible for converting Microsoft Windows from English to the local Pashto language so that government offices could use the software. He had spent time in Kuwait, and the Afghan translator accompanying the soldiers said they were acting on a tip that Rahman was a member of al-Qaeda.

They took the barefoot Rahman and a cousin of his to a helicopter some distance away and transported them to a small American base in a neighboring province for interrogation. After two days, U.S. forces released Rahman’s cousin. But Rahman has not been seen or heard from since."

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"Virtutis fortuna comes"

Pentagon reviewing strategic information operations

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TERRORIST:

Money graf from Verma's fine piece:

'According to an unclassified report by Task Force Kandahar, only 30 per cent of insurgents fight for money. The rest take up arms because of tribal allegiances or for “other reasons,” an amorphous category that encompasses everything from revenge to land disputes. Just 10 per cent fight for religious reasons, according the analysis.'

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AFGHAN ARMY

 Richard Engel maintains that staff officers work short hours and are corrupt. Only some of the small companies of troops deployed in the countryside can effectively be said to be at war. Even these are 90% illiterate, and some have received only 2 weeks of 'show and tell' training. Drug use is rampant among troops, and some 25 percent go AWOL.


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Gerald


Special forces training Afghan
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6160161n&tag=contentBody;housing
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