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Former AFP agent, solicitor David Healey warns against withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Cassandra Morgan
A former federal agent says it would be an “absolute travesty” for Australia and the United States to withdraw troops from Afghanistan so…
David Healey, now the principal at Canberra’s David Healey Solicitors, was deployed to Afghanistan with the Australian Federal Police for a year in 2010 to help train and mentor…
He also helped provide much needed security to the provinces.
More than a decade later and with Afghanistan on “the verge of collapse”, he said the job’s not done, and the international community needed to go back in and finish it.
He said by the…