ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: The Washington Times
16February2011 1:53pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Schoolteacher Abdul Rahman drops his voice to a whisper as he watches U.S. troops guard a street where insurgents attacked the police 
headquarters a day earlier in this capital of the province that was the birthplace of the Taliban.
“The foreign forces are everywhere, but they are not helping us,” Mr. Rahman said as he sat in a cracked plastic lawn chair with his friends outside a photo shop.
Residents of the impoverished city of 800,000 people live in fear, even as they see heavily armed NATO troops patrolling the streets in armored vehicles every day and snarling traffic. There are 1,600 Afghan policemen in Kandahar, 800 more than last year. The Afghan police are partnered with 850 U.S. military police, up from 170 last summer. Still, most Afghans are deeply suspicious of the police, whom they often see as corrupt. (read full report)
