Jake on DefenseTech’s podcast
Feb 18, 2009 Jake's Posts, Podcasts
Today I was pleased to be invited as guest on DefenseTech’s weekly podcast called Boots on the Ground.
The host of the show is Christian Lowe who is also the Managing Editor for News at Military.com.
The topics were piracy around the Horn of Africa and also the Blackwater-to-Xe name change.
The audio was bad for my side as I was doing it VOIP. I hope you enjoy it. But, Leave a comment either way.
SF
Jake
Drug abuse hampers Afghan police
Feb 18, 2009 Afghanistan
By Martin Patience
BBC News, Kabul
Sixty per cent of the Afghan police in the country’s southern province of Helmand use drugs, it is claimed.
The estimate, made by a UK official working in the province, was contained in emails obtained by the BBC.
International forces are fighting a fierce counter-insurgency campaign against Taleban militants and other insurgents in Helmand.
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