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Rogue Afghan officer let Taliban kill father

Onetime militant fatally shot civilian and 8 colleagues

By Javed Hamdard

 |  Washington Post  

  April 08, 2012

Before the Afghan police officer named Asadullah killed eight of his colleagues and one civilian last month, he spent years as a Taliban fighter, targeting men he called infidels and crisscrossing the Pakistani border with teams of insurgents. Afghan and Western officials said they uncovered those details in conversations with Asadullah’s family and friends after the new police recruit and Taliban sleeper agent apparently drugged his colleagues and shot them in the head while they slept.

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