KABUL – Heads of security departments, including interior and defenseministers along with the director of national security on Sunday appearedat a joint press conference following the deadly bombing in Kabul city.
Interior minister Wais Ahmad Barmak told journalists that insurgents havespies among Afghanistan’s security forces, and that they even have spies inthe political sphere.
Barmak also said that one of the reasons Saturday’s deadly bombing was notprevented, was because of the weakness of the intelligence departments.
“They (spies) unfortunately want to cooperate with the enemy. We are tryingto arrest them, dozens of them have been arrested from among the securityforces, from society and from among the political people,” said Barmak.
National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief Mohammad Masoum Stanikzaimeanwhile said Afghanistan’s war is complicated and that insurgentgroups are backed by foreign countries.
Stanikzai said NDS cannot prevent some of the complex insurgent attacks.
“In one week when 190 people (insurgents) get arrested, it means that mostof the incidents have been prevented, but some incidents really cannot bestopped,” said Stanikzai.
Afghan defense minister Tariq Shah Bahrami however said they will manageAfghanistan’s war. He urged the people to support security forces at thiscritical time.
“Any time that the leadership team (leaders) find more competent and betterpeople than us, I am ready to resign and to leave my seat to the person whowill work better than me,” said Bahrami.
Afghan people have always criticized security forces over their failure toprevent such attacks, especially in the capital.