The Joint Prioritized Effects List or JPEL is a list of individuals who coalition forces in Afghanistan try to capture or kill. The

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is working through the list. According to the

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German troops listed Shirin Agha with the number 3145 and on 11 October 2010 German troops killed Agha. Coalition forces are authorized to kill or capture individuals named on the list. According to a document from the 2010

the list has 2,058 names. That list provided the intelligence basis for a pace of some 90 night-raids per month in late 2009. ''

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'' reported that the

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(JSOC) was executing targets on the Joint Prioritized Effects List. John Nagl, a former counterinsurgency adviser to General

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, described JSOC's kill/capture campaign to ''Frontline'' as "an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine." Individuals on the list are assigned priority levels on a scale of one to four, with one being the most important.{{cite news , url= http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html, title= Obama's Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan, publisher= Der Spiegel, date= 2014-12-30, accessdate = 2014-12-30, archivedate = 2014-12-28, archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141228203416/http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html , url-status = live Since October 2008 the NATO defense ministers decided that drug networks would now be "legitimate targets" for

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troops. The United Nations estimated that the Taliban was earning US$300 million a year through the drug trade, and according to a leaked NSA document "the insurgents could not be defeated without disrupting the drug trade." In the opinion of American military commanders such as Bantz John Craddock, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe at the time, there was no need to prove that drug money was actually being funneled to the Taliban to declare Afghan couriers, farmers, and dealers as legitimate targets of NATO strikes. In early-2009 Craddock issued an order to expand the JPEL list to include drug producers, but such targets had to be investigated as individual cases after a complaint by the German NATO General Egon Ramms that the order is "illegal" and a violation of

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References

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)