I don’t think it helps our cause to be so closely associated with the NDS in a very overt fashion because of the specific reputation it has among the population for its behaviour.
One of the challenges we had at the PRT was when we would meet with Afghans, they would give us specific points about what they were concerned about or what their major issues were, and more often than not they were related to situations like this. They weren't necessarily always related to development assistance or general security concerns. What they were concerned about was what happened to their cousin who went missing a year and a half ago, or why some people have been in NDS custody for months at a time without having any charges laid against them, and were they Canadian transferred detainees or were they not? Those were the types of questions we got. They would come to us hoping for and expecting some sort of answer, and more often than not we were unable to provide that because we were only responsible for those individuals who were transferred over by our Canadian Forces.