Mar 26th, 2009 - Reuters
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MEHTAR LAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The first recruits graduated on Thursday to a new Afghan community force the U.S. military hopes will boost local security against the Taliban and do for Afghanistan what Sunni militias did in Iraq.
The U.S. military says the Afghan Public Protection Force (APPF) will free up police by guarding schools, mosques and roads and boost traditional power structures fractured by war and threatened by the Taliban's hardline brand of justice.
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