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...What do you expect," asks Izzatullah Wasifi, director of the General Independent Administration of Anti-Corruption, "when we pay a [policeman] $60 a month, give him a gun, and tell him to stand up against terrorists and narcotics smugglers, when everyone around him is corrupt? We pay him nothing and expect him to act like an angel and go home and feed his family what - dust, rocks?" The solution, says Wasifi, is better training and higher salaries, both of which are forthcoming under a new U.S.-led police-training program. Last fall President Hamid Karzai admitted that several unnamed high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Enemy | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...What do you expect," asks Izzatullah Wasifi, Director of the General Independent Administration of Anti- Corruption and Bribery, "when we pay a [policeman] $60 a month, give him a gun, and tell him to stand up against terrorists and narcotics smugglers, when everyone around him is corrupt? We pay him nothing and expect him to act like an angel and go home and feed his family what - dust, rocks?" The solution, he says, is better training and higher salaries, both of which are forthcoming under a new U.S.-led national police-training program. But as long as higher government officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Corruption a Growing Concern | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

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