3 Afghan Army, 2 Afghan DEA who fled U.S. training assignments caught
Posted on September 23, 2014 by creeping
via 3 Afghan Army officers missing from U.S. base in custody at Canada-U.S. border – World – CBC News.
Three Afghanistan National Army officers
who went missing during a training exercise at a Cape Cod military base
were detained Monday at the U.S.-Canadian border, Massachusetts law
enforcement officials said.
Massachusetts state police were notified
that the three were being questioned by federal authorities at Rainbow
Bridge, which connects Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Niagara Falls, Ont.,
said spokesman David Procopio, who did not have further details.
There was no immediate comment from the Pentagon.
U.S.
Customs and Border Protection officials in Niagara Falls said they
didn’t have the men in custody. Messages left for Canada Border Services
Agency weren’t immediately returned.
CBS reports They were transferred to U.S. custody Monday night.
Military officials said the Afghan
soldiers had been participating in a U.S. Central Command Regional
Co-operation training exercise at Joint Base Cape Cod. They arrived at
Camp Edwards on Sept. 11 and were last seen Saturday at the Cape Cod
Mall in Hyannis during an off day.
The soldiers were reported missing by base security personnel Saturday night. They were identified as Maj. Jan Mohammad Arash, Capt. Mohammad Nasir Askarzada and Capt. Noorullah Aminyar.
Gov. Deval Patrick, who had been briefed
over the weekend on the situation, said earlier Monday that the military
did not believe the three soldiers posed a danger to the public.
They were vetted by the military. They
were cleared by the military,” Patrick told reporters while he visited a
preschool program in Quincy.
“There is a lot of speculation within the military that they may be trying to defect,” he said.
Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon
spokesman, said earlier that 14 Afghans taking part in the Cape Cod
military exercise were “thoroughly vetted” prior to coming to the U.S.,
so officials do not believe they are a threat.
The Regional Co-operation training
exercises have been held annually since 2004 to promote co-operation and
interoperability among forces, build functional capacity, practice
peacekeeping operations and enhance readiness.
This year’s exercise, which involves more
than 200 participants from six nations including the U.S., is scheduled
to wrap up Wednesday. Military officials from Tajikistan, Pakistan,
Kazakhstan and Mongolia are also participants.
The two DEA trainees are reportedly being sent home, via Afghan nationals who disappeared in D.C. while training with DEA found, being sent home | WJLA.com.
WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Two Afghan policemen
who were in the D.C. area for drug trafficking training and vanished
last weekend in Georgetown have now been found, the Drug Enforcement
Administration told ABC7 News on Friday.
The two men – Mohammad Yasin Ataye, 22, and Mohd Naweed Samimi, 24 – were found safe somewhere outside of D.C., but officials would not say exactly where.
The pair were part of a group of 31 Afghan
police officers who were in the U.S. for a multi-week DEA training
program at Quantico, Va. They disappeared while the group was on a
DEA-supervised sightseeing trip to Georgetown.
The DEA said the two men separated from the group and left because they did not want to go back to Afghanistan.
The other Afghan officers graduated the
DEA program and were due to return home Friday night. These two men were
being sent home along with the rest of the group, the DEA said.
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