...In his testimony, Colvin also said the secrecy around the detainee numbers made little sense. "If we go into a village and take away three Afghans, everyone in the village knows exactly who we have taken," he explained. "In practice, the information was being concealed not from the Taliban, but from NATO, the Red Cross and the Canadian public."...
...Canada's detainee policies have alienated Canadian troops from the local population and strengthened the insurgency, he added.
Canada's detainee policies have alienated Canadian troops from the local population and strengthened the insurgency...
Nearly 600 detainees may have been turned over to Afghan security forces