Photo released by the Afghan Interior Ministry on December 25, 2012 shows Afghan interior minister Mujtaba Patang (L) congratulating police officer Beyar Khan Weyaar at the interior ministry in Kabul. The Taliban believed Weyaar was the perfect candidate to prepare an insider attack on Afghan police, but instead he set a daring trap that has given a rare insight into suicide bombing tactics.
Policeman Wreaks Revenge On Taliban Bombers Who Tried To Bribe Him -- The Australian
FOR an Afghan policeman paid $240 a month, the offer might have been too good to refuse: a one-off job that promised $50,000, two new cars and a luxury house in Pakistan.
Yet it was a proposition that Beyar Khan Weyaar said he never contemplated accepting. The offer was said to be coming from the feared commander of the Haqqani network, which is linked to the Taliban, and the mission had the trademark brutality of the terrorist group.
Mr Weyaar, 40, was told that the rewards would be his if he would help to get six suicide bombers and an explosives-laden truck into the compound of the government headquarters of Paktika province. The target was the governor and the police chief, though the bomb was big enough to take out a whole block.
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Update #1: Police trap reveals how Afghan ‘insider attacks’ work -- Daily Times
Update #2: Afghan Police Trap Reveals How 'Insider Attacks' Actually Work -- Business Insider/AFP
My Comment: I have never heard of anyone getting paid that type of money in Afghanistan for aiding an "insider attack". The Haqqani network was appealing to his greed .... and he was smart enough to not take it.
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