Afghan Leaders Accuse British of Secret Plan To Train Taliban

Yikes...the governments of Afghanistan and Britain are nearly at war. A number of weeks ago there was the incident of the British envoys being expelled from Afghanistan when the Brits were found to be collaborating with the Taliban - it was later shown that the Brits were looking to "turn" a Taliban leader. And now, Afghan leaders say they have proof that the Brits were going to install a training camp for over 2,000 Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Here's a quote from one of the Afghan leaders:

"The camp would provide military training for 1,800 ordinary Taleban fighters and 200 low level commanders."

This new plan of training comes out of the same arrest of the British diplomats - apparently there was some computer intelligence confiscated that held the training camp plans. The point of it all is that the Brits had some sort of crazy plan to turn a group of Taliban against their fellow jihadists but the Brits never told the Afghan government what they were doing! The Brits have some real fence mending to do here, and quickly.

Here's the full story.

Afghan leaders accuse British of secret plan for training Taleban

SECRET British plans for a Taleban training camp in southern Afghanistan are behind a spectacular diplomatic spat that has seen Anglo-Afghan relations plummet to an almost unprecedented low.
Afghan officials claim the camp for 2,000 fighters was part of a top-secret deal to make the insurgents swap sides. The plans were discovered on a computer memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.The Afghan government claims they prove British agents were talking to the Taleban without the president's permission.The British insist president Hamid Karzai's office knew what was going on. But Mr Karzai expelled two top diplomats, linked to the plan, amid accusations they were part of a plot to buy-off the insurgents

An Afghan government whistleblower said the training camp was part of a controversial British plan to use bands of reconciled Taleban, called Community Defence Volunteers, to fight the remaining insurgents.He said: "The camp would provide military training for 1,800 ordinary Taleban fighters and 200 low level commanders."The thumb-sized computer chip was impounded by Afghanistan's national directorate of security, when they moved against a party of international diplomats visiting Helmand, on 23 December, last year.A ministry insider said: "When they were arrested the British said the ministry of interior and the national
security council knew about it, but no- one knew anything. That's why the president was so angry."