These intelligence specialists will improve the vetting of recruits, profiles of revision of the soldiers who are being trained and generally tighten up procedures to identify individuals who may be vulnerable to the appeals of extremists, officials said.
Some of the agents have already arrived, and the rest are expected soon, said Lieutenant Colonel David C. Simons, a spokesman for the mission from NATO in Afghanistan training.
Since March 2009, at least 57 people, including 32 us soldiers, were killed in at least 19 attacks in which members of Afghan service have returned their weapons to the coalition forces. Another 64 were wounded. The totals do not include the attackers, many of whom died in shootings or attacks suicide.
More than half of the victims took place in the first five months of this year, an increase in the number and intensity of the attacks of signalling. But while the Taliban often credit for these attacks, NATO officials say that the majority of episodes arising from disagreements and arguments that degenerate into violence.
"These incidents are exacerbated by the conditions of the austere battlefield, combat stress, fatigue and cultural misunderstandings," said Colonel Simons.
However, he added, "the threat of infiltration is real".
Attacks are increasing as NATO forces are racing to train and build the Afghan army and police force of 395,000 in 2014. The accumulation is essential for United States and NATO exit strategies, including the delivery of all the duties security and fight against the Afghan forces in the next three years. But the pace is also putting tensions in Afghan agents to the flood of recruits from the screen.
One of the worst attacks occurred in April, when a pilot of the Afghan army shot and killed eight members of the American service and a contractor during a meeting of foreign and Afghan officials on the military side of Kabul International Airport. At least three NATO soldiers have been killed in two attacks since then.
The attacks have continued despite the efforts to improve the screening of recruits and suppress the illegal sales of uniforms of police and army.
The Taliban frequently take credit for the attacks and said that they have recruited young people across the country to join the forces of national security as sleeper agents. NATO officials say they have no evidence that is rampant infiltration or that the insurgents have been correctly joined the service with the intention of attacking the coalition forces.
If infiltration is widespread, the claims are difficult to contest and serve to undermine the popular confidence in the increasing army and police forces.
Add to that mistrust is the problem of officers and Afghan soldiers of police, and imposters dressed like them: attack made up of Government and military installations.
Afghan intelligence officials on Friday could not say how many of these attacks have occurred. But the list is long and increasing, said Lutfullah Mashal, a spokesman for the National Directorate of security, the main intelligence agency.
Many of the attacks involved insurgent army or police uniforms and false identifications of Government, said. "But there are also these types of attacks that they had infiltrated our national forces, and were then carried out the attacks enemies, and we are seeing an increase in these attacks", said Mr. Mashal.
Last month, an Afghan soldier with eight months on the force helped a suicide to obtain a uniform of the army and the identification necessary to carry out an attack in the national military hospital, one of the worst attacks in the capital of this year. The attack killed six people who were training to professionals in health and other more than 20 people wounded, including several of the students of medicine.
In April, a police officer who had recently joined the Force entered the headquarters of the police strongly protected in Kandahar City, killing the Chief of police, a figure widely admired since his days as an anti-Soviet fighter.
The Directorate of security detained almost a dozen people this week Afghan, in connection with a suicide attack in April in the Ministry of defense that killed two soldiers an Afghan intelligence officer, said. Those arrested included "high-level officials" with the Ministry of defence and the Ministry of the Interior, which oversees the national police Afghan, the official said that he spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
Coalition forces sharply increased the training of Afghan in November Counterintelligence agents, once a well-regarded Afghan border police opened fire on US troops in the province of Nangarhar, killing six. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, but researchers now believe that the soldier acted as personal suffering, including the insistence of his father, which he accepted a contract of marriage with a young woman.
The new US agents will probably work with their Afghan counterparts, whose job is to identify possible insurgents between Afghan forces and to look for signs of service members who, acting for financial or personal stress or because of threats to their families, could fall under the influence of the Taliban. Almost 200 Afghan officers were in the field of April, and that number is expected to more than double the end of the year.
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