No, because the Taliban will give you about $220 to $230, and the police are getting a little bit more. Once again, the problem is that you have to hitchhike home to the family to deliver the money. It might be a long way, and by that time you've been ripped off for about 20% of it, at least. And when you get home, you don't then turn around and come right back. You come back when you've run out of money. Therefore, the absentee rate is unbelievably high, except, for some reason, that the units that have been formed in southern Afghanistan are really quite reliable and are sticking around. There's a bit of an esprit within the organization. Don't ask me why it's there and not in the police force, other than for the fact that I think the police are more regionally oriented.
On February 14th, 2008. See this statement in context.