Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09KABUL2470
2009-08-23 08:41:00
SECRET//NOFORN
Embassy Kabul
Cable title:
DST SARKANI: A VIEW FROM THE FIELD
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S E C R E T KABUL 002470
NOFORN
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SRAP, SCA/FO, SCA/A, EUR/RPM
STATE PASS USAID FOR ASIA/SCAA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/26/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM ECON MASS AF MOPS
SUBJECT: DST SARKANI: A VIEW FROM THE FIELD
Classified By: Interagency Provincial Affairs Deputy Coordinator Hoyt Y
ee for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
Summary
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S E C R E T KABUL 002470
NOFORN
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SRAP, SCA/FO, SCA/A, EUR/RPM
STATE PASS USAID FOR ASIA/SCAA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/26/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM ECON MASS AF MOPS
SUBJECT: DST SARKANI: A VIEW FROM THE FIELD
Classified By: Interagency Provincial Affairs Deputy Coordinator Hoyt Y
ee for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
Summary
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1. (S/NF) The first civilian element of District Support
Team (DST) Sarkani found an absence of governance in Sarkani,
despite USG investment in the physical facility for the
District Headquarters. Sarkani officials will need a great
deal of capacity building and mentoring to ensure that local
government is functioning at a basic level. The environment
is kinetic, and five rocket propelled grenades were fired at
forward operating base (FOB) Joyce, where the DST will be
nested, on the evening of August 2, but no one was injured.
End Summary.
Kinetic Environment
-------------- arkani Dnt is still
rudimentary and needs a great deal of capacity-building,
encouragement and mentoring to become more effective.
Townspeople came to the S-3 for service requests, rather than
to District officials, because they saw the ISAF elements as
far more likely to assist. We encouraged the petitioners to
approach their own officials instead. We will be careful not
to cultivate a local dependency on the DST, and we will
7. (U) SCR-E has reviewed this message.
EIKENBERRY
NOFORN
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SRAP, SCA/FO, SCA/A, EUR/RPM
STATE PASS USAID FOR ASIA/SCAA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/26/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM ECON MASS AF MOPS
SUBJECT: DST SARKANI: A VIEW FROM THE FIELD
Classified By: Interagency Provincial Affairs Deputy Coordinator Hoyt Y
ee for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
Summary
--------------
1. (S/NF) The first civilian element of District Support
Team (DST) Sarkani found an absence of governance in Sarkani,
despite USG investment in the physical facility for the
District Headquarters. Sarkani officials will need a great
deal of capacity building and mentoring to ensure that local
government is functioning at a basic level. The environment
is kinetic, and five rocket propelled grenades were fired at
forward operating base (FOB) Joyce, where the DST will be
nested, on the evening of August 2, but no one was injured.
End Summary.
Kinetic Environment
-------------- arkani Dnt is still
rudimentary and needs a great deal of capacity-building,
encouragement and mentoring to become more effective.
Townspeople came to the S-3 for service requests, rather than
to District officials, because they saw the ISAF elements as
far more likely to assist. We encouraged the petitioners to
approach their own officials instead. We will be careful not
to cultivate a local dependency on the DST, and we will
7. (U) SCR-E has reviewed this message.
EIKENBERRY