The Taliban fell on the responsibility for the attack, claiming that the shooter was a sleeper agent planted to kill NATO soldiers. Afghan police and military encrypted, find ways, to insurgents lurking out in their ranks. Screening intensified by new recruits and soldiers.
But if a joint investigation was completed at some point later, Afghan and American investigators no sleeper agent but overcome that the gunman, a man named Ezzatullah from a small village in the province of Nangarhar province, where the attack occurred, was a good soldier, by personal stress, including his father's insistence that he accept a marriage with a young girl.
Fears of Taliban infiltration in the Afghan national security forces was created this week again, after insurgents in Afghan military uniforms dressed three strongly secured government sites attacked. The last attack came Monday at the Defense Ministry headquarters in downtown Kabul and two Afghan soldiers killed.
The attacks have fueled concerns among Afghan officials, who are concerned about their own safety and the fate of a country whose military and the police making them worry infused with enemy insurgents could be. Some in the Senate on Wednesday referred the resignation of the Defense Minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, by him not in the position his own Ministry, let alone to defend the country.
But preliminary research has shown that the perpetrators in at least two of the attacks not members of the Afghan army or the police, the after two NATO officers, intelligence and a NATO informed consultant concerning the investigations served. You are also doubtful that the person in the remaining attack was a member, if the investigation continues.
Intelligence officials have in fact no evidence that infiltration is widely used as the Taliban claimed, according to the officers, together, due to the nature of their positions consulting Afghan forces under the condition of anonymity said. However, officials know that Taliban breed claims of infiltration of mistrust and are hard to refute.
"their aim is to separate the coalition of the Afghan national army and this is a great tool for them, whether they it or not to have done," one of the officers said.
Infiltration or not, the most recent attacks have exposed to other security concerns, including the strict checks identification and body-search on checkpoints and access and the availability of official-looking uniforms and military equipment in shops and bazaars in Kabul and the provinces. Investigators were also checking whether all guards took bribes to let the rebels by.
"At least two of them clearly, guys, who got a uniform and had helped,", said the NATO Security Advisor. "And that is that really what we are concerned about is - is the enemy in the location of this effectiveness system to penetrate, or they are actually able to co-opt or uniforms and other equipment that out can collect them weaknesses in the physical security of these places on the street and exploit use?"
Yet concerns sleeper agents running high on NATO and Afghan officials. After the attack in Khost November training the Afghan Counterintelligence escalates Coalition agent hot. It is their job to identify possible insurgents to Afghan forces, and search for signs of service members, your financial or personal stress or threats to their families could fall under Taliban influence. Almost 200 agents are now in the field, and this number is expected to more than double by the end of the year.
Since September 2009, when intensifying efforts began to build of the national security forces, NATO forces have required all recruits, an eight step screening process go through. As part of recruits have to undergo criminal background checks and drug tests, and two letters by village elders vouch for their character.
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