Report: Afghan, Iraq wars teaching US gang members military combat | War On You: Breaking Alternative News
Gang members in the US military are returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan armed with knowledge of military tactics, a fact that could threaten the lives of law enforcement officers in the US and worsen the gang problem, according to a new report from the Chicago Sun-Times.
Jeffrey Stoleson, a Wisconsin corrections officer who has completed multiple tours in Iraq, also told the Sun-Times that civilian contractors are a part of the growing drug-gang problem within the US’s overseas wars. Stoleson says he was “involved in destroying a large quantity of drugs confiscated from US contractors in Iraq.”
An unnamed Chicago police officer who served in Afghanistan said Bagram Air Base is “covered with Chicago gang graffiti,” the Sun-Times reported. That same officer said that, since returning to Chicago, he has arrested gang members who had the Army’s combat manual at home.
