Is the corruption in Afghanistan so deep the most promising officers are being targeted for death?
I would hate to think the ISI in cooperation with the Taliban are actually carrying these strikes.
,,,Brigadier James Cowan, who was in charge of 9,500 British troops in southern Afghanistan in 2009, said Darren Chant had been selected for promotion to army officer level before his death and was a ‘clear candidate’ to be the sergeant major at Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst – a top position in the army.
He said: ‘Sergeant Major Chant was a big man in every sense of the word. He had a personality big enough to be a widely-respected character.’
But on the day he was to be informed of his promotion, the father-of-three from Horndean was shot dead by a rogue Afghan policeman.
The attacker, named in court as Afghan police officer Gulbuddin Mohammed, killed five soldiers in the attack at Blue 25 checkpoint in the village of Shin Kalay on November 3, 2009. WO1 Chant and his men had been based at Blue 25 to iron out problems with the local Afghan police force....
