Program officials empower Afghan citizens to protect against threat of IED attacks: "A new program backed by Afghan National Security Forces and Combined Joint Task Force-82 empowers Afghan citizens to take a stand against improvised explosive device attacks.
'Operation Jaeza,' or 'reward,' gives Afghans a protection from enemy actions targeting innocent people, said Afghan Maj. Gen. Abdul Khaliq, the commanding general of the 203rd Corps, Afghan National Army, during a press conference on the subject at a forward operating base in Paktya province, recently.
The program was implemented four weeks ago and has already produced $48,000 in rewards in just the past week. People in the Paktika, Paktya, Khowst and Ghazni provinces produced leads on the location of the IEDs themselves, their makers or distributors of IED-making materials."
