Canadian Forces headquarters ordered Canadian Military Police in Kandahar to withhold information about detainees from the allied International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, an email among the 2,600 documents the government tabled in Parliament says.
The September 2006 email from diplomat Richard Colvin to the Canadian Embassy in Kabul and a string of recipients in every branch involved in the Canadian mission says an official with the International Security Assistance Force, which oversees troops from Canada, the U.S. and 24 other NATO countries battling the Taliban, raised concern about detainees.
Mr. Colvin sent the email after a series of major battles between Canadian troops and Taliban insurgents in Kandahar. More than a dozen Canadian soldiers were killed in the fighting.
Source: The Hill Times
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