Kabul Embassy... Just sick...

Damocles

Damocles

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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8474937

Private security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul were pressured to participate in naked pool parties and perform sex acts to gain promotions or assignment to preferable shifts, according to one of 12 guards who have gone public with their complaints.

n an interview with ABC News for broadcast tonight on the "World News with Charles Gibson," the guard, a U.S. military veteran, said top supervisors of the ArmorGroup were not only aware of the "deviant sexual acts" but helped to organize them.

Watch Brian Ross' full report tonight on "World News with Charles Gibson" at 6:30pm.

"It was mostly the young guys fresh from the military who were told they had to participate," said the guard, who talked on a phone hook-up arranged by the Project on Government Oversight, which first revealed photographs of the parties.

More at link...
 
Yep blackwater stirkes again. I hope Obama has their contracts rescinded and makes them ineligable for more.

Party Ends for Kabul Embassy’s Booze-Soaked Guard Force

* By Nathan Hodge Email Author

armorgroup_2Amid allegations that the contracted security force guarding the Kabul embassy had turned into the 101st Tequila Brigade, the State Department sent a top-level team to investigate. Alcohol has been banned at Camp Sullivan — the compound where the guards live — and diplomatic security officers have been assigned to keep an eye on the guards.

It’s brought the spotlight on ArmorGroup, the relatively low-key security firm that has provided security for the embassy since 2007 under a contract worth $189 million. Wackenhut, a subsidiary of G4S, had bid for the initial embassy security contract, only to be outbid by ArmorGroup North America; in Senate testimony this year, Samuel Brinkley, vice president of homeland and international security services at Wackenhut, complained the firm had been losing $1 million a month on the embassy contract since G4S acquired ArmorGroup in mid-2008.

Despite questions about the management of that contract, ArmorGroup until recently had managed to avoid the kind of high-profile scandals that have plagued some private security operators. The company didn’t have a corporate figurehead like Xe/Blackwater founder Erik Prince (a favorite punching bag for the anti-war left) or “unorthodox soldier” Tim Spicer (the head of Aegis Defence Services and a subject of endless fascination for the U.K. press). Former ArmorGroup CEO Dave Seaton, for instance, came out of the oilfield services industry — and joined the company after a long stint with The Stuffed Shirt Company, which made wrinkle-free shirts for travelers.

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/09/party-ends-for-kabul-embassys-booze-soaked-guard-force/
 
uscitizen said:
Imagine Gay mercenaries....


Sounds like a good Monty Python skit.
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Well, I'd be having the crappy time slots because there would be no way they could convince me to participate. Sick. I can't believe they got away with it this long.
 
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