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US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression

by Frank Bajak
| September 9, 2021 12:03 AM

BOSTON (AP) — Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people. The nobly stated goal: Promote law and order and government accountability and modernize a war-ravaged land.

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