State Dept: No One Touched 'Dancing Boy' At DynCorp Party

[RandySF]

Of the Wikileaks cache of diplomatic cables, one of the most potentially salacious is about the entertainment at a party thrown by DynCorp, a U.S. contractor training Afghan police, in April 2009. A 17-year-old boy was hired to dance.

In Afghanistan, hiring "dancing boys" is a long-held practice in which Afghan men hire young men and boys to dress like girls and dance at weddings and other parties. They don't hire girls, because in Afghan society men and women don't mix socially.

The dancing is one thing. But there are other practices associated with the dancing boys. As detailed in a Frontline documentary earlier this year, the boys are sometimes brought to hotels after the parties and prostituted. In some cases, their families sell them to warlords and other prominent Afghanis.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/state_dept_no_one_touched_dancing_boy_at_dyncorp_p.php?ref=fpi

[EFerrari]

1. They didn't inhale. n/t

[abelenkpe]

2. Yeah. right.

That's why the afghan official was so concerned.

Still don't think they should be spending money on dancing boys at all.

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r

damn

[Sonoman]

4. "At DynCorp Party"

"At".

How facile.

It's "after" when the fun ratchets up.

Sonoman

[Bobbieo]

5. And the American taxpayer fronts the bill for the festivities.