>
> I am not sure what would be the aim of police work.
> Gather evidence and
> arrest suspected terrorists? What would constitute
> the adquate evidence?
Yes. The usual standards apply. I assume that India, a common law country, has a beyond a reasonable doubt standard to prove criminal liability.
How
> do you gather evidence in a society with the minimum
> of infrastructure? If
> there aren't any a) vehicles to be tailed, b) phones
> to be tapped, c) mail
> to be opened, d) bank accounts to be looked into for
> money laundering etc.
> etc., what would the police work involve?
I'm not a specialist in thsi area, but police do work in such circumstances, e.g., in Nothern Canada.
How do you
> organise the police
> work, when Taliban are in power? Your police force
> is sent on a wild goose
> chase by your "allies". Suspected terrorists are
> tipped off just before a
> raid. They can be provided shelter in mosques and
> madrassas.
Sort like chasing the Mafia in an Italian neighborhood. A policeman's lot is nota happy one. Is a military solution better? We see in Afghanistan that it is not.
>
>
>
> Taliban did not have the popular support that
> Vietcong or FLN had. Taliban
> antagonised all neighbouring countries: Russia,
> China, India and Iran. It is
> not difficult to defeat a regime like Taliban.
> Creating the new and stable
> state apparatus in and for Afghanistan is going to
> the most difficult task.
>
The Taliban was not the problem. The Taliban did not
organize 9/11. Al Qaida did. The Taliban is gone, but
al Qaida is still here. They just beew up some people
in Malaysia today.
jks
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