Roger Noriega is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington and a former State Department official in the George W.Bush administration.
VOA: standard.2009.05.06
Several hundred soldiers in the Afghan Army are thought to be agents for the Taliban or for Pakistan, aformerAmericanofficial told me.
In late 2010, the American military estimated the costs of maintaining the Afghan Army and police at their projected size three hundred and fifty-two thousand at about eight billion dollars a year, according to aformerAmericanofficial who served in Kabul.
According to aformer Afghan official and an Americanofficial, the chief of the Major Crimes Task Force, Nazar Mohammed Nikzad, has sought permission to leave Afghanistan for the United States.