Fin Brief

At yesterday's visit to the PO, the COS FIN NSE (chief of staff of the Finnish national support element) told me to come to CNL yesterday to join some briefings. So much for my late morning and brunch: we left at 0830. The OCCP mentoring team were going to have some training for their drivers today anyway, so they were my transport. The briefings at CNL, which were the Fin Brief and an intelligence briefing, contained actually no information that I could not have received by email to Aybak. My trip to CNL, however, which took the whole day, was not completely in vain. Something always turns up: I met the ACOS G3 (chief of operations, or assistant chief of staff G3) and the Samangan intelligence analyst, who had some interesting information - not that I could not have gotten that by email also. Meanwhile in Aybak, there was an explosion outside town, which turned out to be caused by an NGO (non-governmental organisation) detonating a landmine.