How Afghan Militias, Unleashed by the U.S., Proved Worse Than the Taliban - The New York Times
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[…] those groups preyed on the populace with such cruelty that they turned a one-time stronghold of the United States into a bastion of the insurgency. People came to see the militias, and by extensions the Americans, as a source of torment, not salvation.