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Karzai Requests U.S. Help in Training Security Force

Aired July 22, 2002 - 07:33   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Overseas, U.S. troops in Afghanistan being tapped now for a new security mission to Kabul.

Live with CNN's Nic Robertson brings us up to date from there -- Nic, hello.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, good morning.

Well, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai has said they have called on the U.S. government to help train some of their security officials around the president, Hamid Karzai.

Now, they say that the people they have in place now, they say that they're very good fighters but that they don't have a lot of experience in security roles.

Now, the security detail that the president currently has is the same security detail he inherited from the previous president of Afghanistan. What they are saying at the moment, the spokesmen are saying, is that they are expecting some 40 to 50 trainers, specialists, to come here for an undetermined period, perhaps, they say, between three and six months. And in that period they will improve the security around Afghanistan's president -- Bill.

HEMMER: All right, Nic, thanks.

Nic Robertson live in Kabul with an update from there.

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