The Untouchable: a new breed of warlord

[Joey_Gladstonezai]

^ As much as I'm ashamed of admitting so as an American, what you say is true.

[Joey_Gladstonezai]

The most favorite targets of slanderers are those that otherwise seem to appear on a better and less blameworthy footing. It's easy to pick at the faults of people that are less worthy of blame, and those who live the most corrupt and vile lives are free from scrutiny and will even have the nerve to pick at the shortcomings of others. Can we even begin to talk about all of the atrocities against kids and women that occur in the West? How come no one talks about them. I mention these two groups because they are media favorites to victimize in the Afghan bashing war.

And the main reason I am upset about this is because Americans and those brainwashed by them are too dumb to draw the line, and reading articles like these will make them think this is some widely-practiced cultural tradition (i.e. think RTR). By now, they already do think that way and articles like these do not help that. I know that they were referring mainly to government-backed guards and police officers, but that's because these groups are usually the recruited criminals and misfits of Afghan society. Dumb Americans will not realize that these are people backed and supported by our government here in America, they will begin to think this is some cultural norm, when it clearly is not.

[Joey_Gladstonezai]

This is where US tax-payer dollars are going:


Partying Security Contracting Group Pays $7.5 M Fine

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/armorg...ry?id=14020453

By LEE FERRAN (@leeferran) and JACK CLOHERTY (@jjclo)
July 7, 2011


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Courtesy: The guard who spoke with ABC News said the drunken parties had been held regularly for at least a year and a half.




U.S. Embassy's Animal House Antics Watch Video

The private contracting company whose employees were accused of sexual hazing and throwing wild, drunken parties in Afghanistan settled a lawsuit with the U.S. government by agreeing to pay a $7.5 million fine, the Department of Justice said today.

Along with its affiliates, ArmorGroup North America, which was contracted in part to guard the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, agreed to pay the fine to "resolve allegations" that the company lied in State Department contracts and allowed its employees, with their managers' knowledge, to frequent brothels in Kabul. The suit against ArmorGroup was originally brought by one of their own -- former ArmorGroup Director of Operations James Gordon -- who will reap $1.35 million of the settlement under the government's False Claims Act.


"Americans deserve to know that their tax dollars are being spent wisely and consistent with our values," U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. said in a press release by the Department of Justice. "Our office has targeted government contractors who fail to meet their obligations to the American people."


Allegations that ArmorGroup had misled the U.S. government emerged as early as April 2008 when two other former employees claimed they were fired after raising concerns about the embassy's safety and ArmorGroup's misrepresentations to the State Department.

But it wasn't until September 2009 that photos and videos emerged from one of what appeared to be many lewd, debaucherous parties thrown in Kabul.

PICTURES: Kabul Embassy Guards Seeking Promotion Pressured Into Lewd Hazing

At the time, one of the guards told ABC News said the drunken parties had been held regularly for at least a year before and a half and guards were pressured to participate, as well as perform sexual acts, in order to gain promotions or assignment to preferable shifts.

"They were not gay but they knew what it took to get promoted," the guard said.

Three months later, ArmorGroup lost its contract with the U.S. government amidst a flurry of federal investigations.

[SiiNii]

^ What use would it do to make it 'required reading' besides trying to dehumanize Afghans. I don't think we need any more troops who think of Afghans as subhumans.

Should be read for them to see how the situation on the ground is a lot more complicated than it may first appear.