US still hasn't figured out Taliban treachery attack response

The Hill:

U.S. and coalition commanders are no closer to knowing how deep the Taliban has penetrated Afghanistan’s security forces despite increased efforts to flush out infiltrators who are carrying out attacks against Americans.

"As for what percentage of the insider threat is related to infiltration or radicalization, I mean, it's really difficult to determine," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said Thursday.

"I'm sure a certain percentage of it is. And we're treating it … as a threat," he told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon.

Taliban double agents, posing as members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), are responsible for executing some of the deadly "insider" attacks that have killed 51 coalition troops, mostly from the United States.

In the most recent incident, two U.S. Marines were killed and six U.S. Harrier fighter jets were lost during a brazen raid against Camp Bastion, the United Kingdom's largest military outpost in southern Afghanistan.

Taliban gunmen disguised as U.S. Army soldiers reportedly carried out the strike.

In response, Afghan and coalition leaders have expanded their counterintelligence efforts to pinpoint where and how Taliban operatives are working their way into the ANSF pipeline.

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If they were wearing US army uniforms there should be a way to determine how they got them.  If each uniform were given its own distinctive bar code and that code is put into the record of the soldier who acquired it, they should be able to get a trace on where the uniform came from or where it was stolen from. That would give some clues to how the operation worlds.   They also need to develop detection equipment that would at least make sure that each of the Afghans is who he says he is.