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Intelligence gaps may have helped Afghan Taliban breach NATO fortress
Source: Reuters
POLITICS SPECIAL REPORTS | Wed Nov 23, 2016 | 6:30pm EST
Intelligence gaps may have helped Afghan Taliban breach NATO fortress
By Mirwais Harooni and Qiamuddin Shams | BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN
In the year before Qari Naib blew himself up on Nov. 12 inside a NATO base near Kabul killing four Americans, Afghan intelligence warned the U.S. military at least twice that a worker could be planning an attack, government and security officials said.
The Afghan officials also said they repeatedly asked Western forces to share information about local employees at the vast Bagram air base in order to check for "suspicious people among them", but were refused.
When asked about the information sharing, NATO spokesman Captain William Salvin said NATO forces "routinely partner with ANDSF (Afghan National Defence and Security Forces) on all elements of security, to include information sharing.
"We maintain a strong, day-to-day working relationship with our Afghan counterparts but due to operational security we do not get into specifics about what is shared."
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Intelligence gaps may have helped Afghan Taliban breach NATO fortress
By Mirwais Harooni and Qiamuddin Shams | BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN
In the year before Qari Naib blew himself up on Nov. 12 inside a NATO base near Kabul killing four Americans, Afghan intelligence warned the U.S. military at least twice that a worker could be planning an attack, government and security officials said.
The Afghan officials also said they repeatedly asked Western forces to share information about local employees at the vast Bagram air base in order to check for "suspicious people among them", but were refused.
When asked about the information sharing, NATO spokesman Captain William Salvin said NATO forces "routinely partner with ANDSF (Afghan National Defence and Security Forces) on all elements of security, to include information sharing.
"We maintain a strong, day-to-day working relationship with our Afghan counterparts but due to operational security we do not get into specifics about what is shared."
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-usa-bomber-insight-idUSKBN13I2NN
