Afghan forces met interviewed after the terrorist attack - ABC Online

TONY EASTLEY: A Taliban shooter was wearing a suicide vest has killed two people and wounded seven others in an attack on the Ministry of defence Afghan fortified in the capital, Kabul.

The attack is the third in four days targeting police and military compounds.

This high-security breach has raised serious questions on the effectiveness of the Afghan forces.

Sally Sara reports corresponding Afghanistan in Kabul.

SALLY SARA: This attack showed that the Taliban are still able to cut through the Afghan Government security forces.

An armed man wearing a suicide vest was able to obtain within the Ministry of defence.

He was talking about how well that several control points, because he was wearing an army uniform and carrying a military identification card.

He has had as the second floor, near the offices of the Minister and the army's Deputy Chief of staff. The attacker opened fire, but he was shot in the head before he could detonate his explosives.

It was a fatal shooting in the corridors of power of the Afghan Defence Ministry.

Although Kabul is one of the seven areas in Afghanistan should be handed over the Coalition Afghan control in July. This attack has created great concern. The Ministry of defence is supposed to be one of the most fortified parts of the capital.

The attack is one of the most serious violations of the security of the Afghan Government in several years. Fortunately, Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak was not in his Office at the time.

The incident has alarmed some analysts.

(Halal Uddin Halal speaking)

Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior, Halal Uddin Halal, explains, with certainty, that it's a shock that it happened within the Ministry of defence. But he said when he thinks that logically and professionally he knows that this can happen once more.

It is the third attack on the police and military compounds in four days, including the assassination of the head of the Kandahar police in a raid of suicide and an attack on an army base in the East of the country.

The Taliban have achieving high-level targets, with few civilian victims.

But Halal Halal Uddin, said that the transfer of responsibility for the security of the coalition of Afghan forces must move forward.

(Halal Uddin Halal speaking)

Finally, he stated that the Afghan force will take the responsibilities. He said it's better for the Afghans get this experience for themselves and by difficulties they will solve problems.

These lessons could come at a heavy price if the attacks continue.

Sally Sara is in Kabul for AM.

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Use of Taser police on boy, 11, interviewed

West Vancouver police investigating the use of an agent of a Taser for a boy of 11 years in a group Thursday last to Prince George, b.c., that the officer less than two years of experience on the force and was placed on administrative tasks.

Case of the boy and the ensuing investigation of the RCMP in Prince George, by the service Police of West Vancouver are already raising concerns among critics.

Members of the Department of Police of West Vancouver arrived in Prince George, on Sunday, three days after the incident, to begin the investigation. The Ministry says it plans to make an initial public statement later Monday.

Little is known about the incident except the details contained in a brief statement issued by Prince George RCMP Supt. Brenda Butterworth-Carr on Friday.

The statement said the boy is a suspect in the murder of a man of 37 years, and a Taser was used in his arrest. Officers found the boy within a group of House next to the scene of the crime, and when he left, he was shocked with electric pistol.

The unidentified boy was transported to the hospital for evaluation and then placed in detention, police said Friday. The victim of aggression is recovering from his injuries.

But Thomas Braidwood, the former Chief of investigation of British Colombia on the use of the police Taser and the death of Robert Dziekanski, says that the case is another reminder that the police should consider not police.

Justice Thomas Braidwood, left, discusses his final report on the death of Robert Dziekanski. At the hearing of June 2010 in Vancouver, said shameful Braidwood led by constables led to the death of the Polish immigrant. Andy Clark/Reuters.

"I did not suggest a moment that it is or was any coverups," but there is always a suspicion of it." But I hope that they get with it and set up the independent tribunal that I have said, Braidwood said.

Butterworth-Carr has stated that she supports the idea of an independent tribunal, investigate incidents of this kind, but it was not possible under the current regulations.

"I know there is a problem with respect to the fact that it is another police investigating US Agency, but it is us." And certainly, if we had an independent, as is that Alberta is absolutely, I think that this would be a great thing to have in place. ?

Ellen Turpel-Lafond, representative of British Colombia for children and young people, said the onus to the province to ensure the safety of children in foster home or group homes, and that is why she said it will conduct its own review of the incident.

"Police protocol is, if it is a child, there is a review. "But my question is not if the appropriate police procedures were used, but why we use a Taser on a child in the first place?"She said.

"When we think about what is a very young child, vulnerable, 11 years old, living away from home, in a group home, I don't see a more vulnerable child," she said.

The BC Civil Liberties Association has also called for the police to release more information about the incident and why a Taser was used on a child.

Criminologist at Simon Fraser University David MacAlister asserts that it is difficult to draw conclusions about the conduct of the officers until more details emerge. But he believes that the boy is the youngest ever to be shocked with electric pistol by the RCMP to the Canada.

He noted that, in the final report of Braidwood on the use of the Taser, said there is a concern of the police using batons on people who are particularly thin because there is only a thin layer between their skin and heart.

Braidwood was appointed by the Government of the to oversee an investigation into the use of Tasers or conducted energy weapons in the province and to make recommendations on their appropriate use. He also conducted an investigation into the death of Dziekanski, an immigrant Polish that shocked several times with a weapon at the Vancouver airport.

The gendarmes have been violently criticized the use of Tasers since the death of Dziekanski.

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