NATO Reduced Joint Petrol With Afghan Forces

NATO scales back operations with Afghan forces after insider attacks, protests

 

Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press - Afghan police stand by burning tires during a protest, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Hundreds of Afghans burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base as a demonstration against an anti-Islam video.

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO said Monday that it has scaled back operations with Afghan soldiers and policemen to lower the risk of insider attacks and reduce local tensions over an anti-Islam video that prompted protests in Afghanistan.
It’s the second order that curbs contact between foreign troops and their Afghan partners, undermining the mantra that both sides are fighting the Taliban “shoulder to shoulder.” The directive could jeopardize the U.S.-led coalition’s key goal to get Afghan forces ready to take over security from foreign forces by the end of 2014 — just 27 months from now.

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