Our media left out some details about those naked "contractors" guarding the US Embassy in Kabul

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KJ06Df03.html

Oct 6, 2009

Sex and security in Afghanistan

By David Isenberg

A report by the Washington, DC, Project on Government Oversight recently released publicly tells of the wild naked antics of members of ArmorGroup (AG), which has a United States State Department contract to provide security for the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Hardly mentioned is the use of local bordellos by some contractors. It took a lawsuit filed on September 9 by James Gordon, a former ArmorGroup director of operations, and subsequent whistleblower, against ArmorGroup North America and associated defendants - ArmorGroup International (AGI), Wackenhut Services Inc (WSI), and various management individuals - to bring details to light. Among other things he charges that AG:

Allowed AGNA managers and employees to frequent brothels notorious for housing trafficked women in violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and shutting down the plaintiff's efforts to investigate and put a stop to these violations.
Deliberately withholding documents relating to violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act allegedly committed by AGNA's program manager and other AGNA employees when responding to a document demand from US Congressman Henry Waxman on behalf of the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

This is not the first time issues of private military and security contractors and sex have come up. But the pattern of not doing anything when offenses are reported remains depressingly familiar.

As an article in the winter issue of the Wisconsin International Law Journal recounts, in 2000, employees of DynCorp Inc, a Virginia-based private military security company (PMSC) employed by the United Nations Police Task Force in the Balkans, were accused of participating in a Bosnian sex slavery ring. Kathryn Bolkovac, a DynCorp employee working as a UN Police Force monitor, reported to her supervisors that her male colleagues had made comments about women they owned. Bolkovac was fired soon after.

[Whisp]

1. but I thought the US was there to save the women of Afghanistan?

[Nikki Stone1]

3. That was always bullshit. It was our CIA Taliban that began the oppression. Before the Soviet

invasion, women dressed in the Western way, went to university and had lives. Afghanistan was a real "Handmaid's Tale", courtesy of Uncle Sam's black budget and Zbigniew Brzezinski (Mika's dad).

[Whisp]

5. very much like Iraq.

contrary to what some spewing yaps may say, Iraq was an oasis in that part of the world for women - education, etc., until fucker uncle sam showed his fucking fuckface

but the fuckers from the west can't stand that competition and can't stand a brown country that isn't in abject poverty and misery.

[waiting]

6. That is so sad

This is the kind of stuff that makes me question my optimistic outlook for the future of humanity. As I age, I'm beginning to see that it really is just wishful thinking on my part. And that makes me even more angry.

[mix]

7. +1

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[elehhhhna]

4. armor is owned by the Carlyle Group, fyi

remember hwen GWB mentioned stopping human trafficking and we all scratched our heads? Guess he was talking about routing the competition.

[intheflow]

8. That's an interesting tidbit to know.

These contractor relationships are so... incestuous. It's a slimy web they weave.

[Odin2005]

9. Mercenaries are evil. Period.