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No big revelations? What about DynCorp? US-based private security contractor DynCorp, who was hired by the US to train Afghani police, was apparently supplying
by smokinn 16y ago
No big revelations? What about DynCorp?
US-based private security contractor DynCorp, who was hired by the US to train Afghani police, was apparently supplying drugs and young boys for a sort of sex party.
The details are horrifying. The Afghani interior minister apparently went to US officials to warn them that reporters were sniffing around this story, and urged them to try to kill the story. He specifically warned that this would look bad if the connection to DynCorp was made clear (he called them "foreign mentors"). Apparently, US diplomats told him not to worry, and the eventual story was in fact watered down greatly (until now, of course) calling the whole thing a "tribal dance," rather than a party where young boys wear "scanty women's clothes" and "dance seductively" before being "auctioned off to the highest bidder" for sex.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/00221812176/so-wikileaks-is-evil-releasing-documents-dyncorp-gets-pass-pimping-young-boys-to-afghan-cops.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/00221812176/so-wik...
There's also the fact that everyone knows the Afghani election was rigged but while the Canadian ambassador wanted to do something about it the US didn't.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/250218 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...