Afghan Subjugation Goes High Tech

Solely to make the occupation easier for the occupiers while lives will most assuredly just get worse for Afghans. State terror has done this since forever - forcing Indians onto reservations to 'strategic hamlets' in Vietnam to the concentration camp the US constructed for the people of Fallujah in Iraq. These days they couch it in terms of "security of the people".
Rest assured this is practice for us.

Biometric tests to identify rebels in Afghanistan

"THE inhabitants of combat zones in southern Afghanistan may face biometric tests in a new initiative to prevent the Taliban from infiltrating villages.
After studying counter-insurgency methods employed from the Boer war to the conflict in Iraq, British commanders are drawing up plans for “gated communities” from which the enemy can be excluded by identity checks. The checks may involve fingerprints, retina scans or even DNA tests.
Brigadier James Cowan, the new commander of British forces in Afghanistan, revealed last week how far the campaign in Helmand is being rethought.
“In counter-insurgency you are not here to beat the enemy. You are here to win the people — because the enemy will always be able to regenerate,” he said in the first newspaper interview he has given in his new role. “What you have to be able to do is give people the security they crave.”


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