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Pot Smoking Afghan Cops Challenge Marines
Jul 15 2009, Shehzad

Afghan villagers had complained to the U.S. Marines for days: The police are the problem, not the Taliban. They steal from villagers and beat them. Days later, the Marines learned firsthand what the villagers meant.

As about 150 Marines and Afghan...

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