Send in the Marines! (With Iris Scanners!) - Danger Room from Wired.com
A year ago, Afghan tribesmen with two months of NATO training and $70 bucks a month in NATO pay in their pockets, helped repel a major Taliban assault on the southern town of Chora.
But in April, NATO decided the tribesmen — Afghanistan’s version of the “Sons of Iraq” militias — were a security risk, and fired them all. “The fix?” I asked in a piece for Wired.com. “Marines, of course, armed with fingerprint pads, iris scanners and electronic databases.”
Send in the Marines! (With Iris Scanners!) | Danger Room from Wired.com
