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Nearly four dozen Afghan troops training in the U.S. have vanished in less than two years, officials confirmed Thursday.
At least 44 Afghan troops have left their assigned bases since January 2015, calling into question their training programs' screening processes. Of those 44, 25 were reported Absent Without Leave, or AWOL, in 2015, and 19 have gone AWOL this year.
One of the eight Afghan students who disappeared in September of this year turned up at the Canadian border, the Pentagon reported. Police caught the student. FoxNews.com has reported that many Afghans who go AWOL from training in the U.S. have made their way through a pipeline running from Texas to Toronto.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the frequency of Afghan troops disappearing from military training was truly concerning and “out of the ordinary.”
The Defense Dept. “is assessing ways to strengthen eligibility criteria for training in ways that will reduce the likelihood of an individual Afghan willingly absconding from training in the U.S. and going AWOL,” Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump told Fox News.
The network helping Afghans move along the pipeline from the U.S. to Canada includes the students' relatives, women living in the U.S. illegally who transport the Afghans to bus stations or airports, and an Iranian taxi driver who shuttles them across the Canadian border, FoxNews.com has learned.
When foreign troops who leave military training in the U.S. are gone for more than 24 hours, officials alert Homeland Security, according to the Pentagon.
Afghans who train at U.S. military bases are vetted to make sure they don’t have a sketchy background or ties to militant groups in the Middle East, Stump added. The defense official told Reuters there was no evidence that those who vanished posed any threat to the U.S.
The military training program, on which the White House has spent billions of dollars since 2002, brings in troops from around the world to train at U.S. bases.

Like anybody would go back there on purpose. But they didn't even see it coming. SW

What the heck are there fighting for in Aleppo??????
looks like Berlin after day/night bombings........minus any people.........soo....the question begs to be answered......why????

marc n tomtom

.....I was aware of this for a while....its been reported before but not mainstream media....as for bringing in and training foreign troops-thats been going on MUCH longer....when I was assigned to my 'A' school for classified Intelligence training in '72,I was shocked to see many Arab nation troops and other 'not so trustworthy' countries on base that we trained even back then...i was NOT happy about it then even as a newbie and questioned why we were doing it.....I'm sure that it bit us in the ass for doing it since...

so we are importing trained terrorists , and training them further ? WTF - so much for the vetting our government does