Posted on 12/09/2010 11:31:26 AM PST by Captain Kirk
Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police.
While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satellite campus at Alliance Airport north of Fort Worth. And if one of the diplomatic cables from the WikiLeaks archive is to be believed, boy howdy, are their doings in Afghanistan shady.
The Afghanistan cable (dated June 24, 2009) discusses a meeting between Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar and US assistant ambassador Joseph Mussomeli. Prime among Atmar's concerns was a party partially thrown by DynCorp for Afghan police recruits in Kunduz Province.
Many of DynCorp's employees are ex-Green Berets and veterans of other elite units, and the company was commissioned by the US government to provide training for the Afghani police. According to most reports, over 95 percent of its $2 billion annual revenue comes from US taxpayers.
And in Kunduz province, according to the leaked cable, that money was flowing to drug dealers and pimps. Pimps of children, to be more precise. (The exact type of drug was never specified.)
Since this is Afghanistan, you probably already knew this wasn't a kegger. Instead, this DynCorp soiree was a bacha bazi ("boy-play") party, much like the ones uncovered earlier this year by Frontline.
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And why should they? They were part of this scam even even before they got elected.
This $3 trillion dollar scam makes ENRON lunch money in comparrison.
What makes my blood boil is that this brazen scam was stopped by Chicoms, and not by decent, patriotic Americans.
It seems that China is not only American banker but American babysitter as well.
How in the h*ll do elite corps like ex-berets promote this type of activity? Where is the honor? This is shameful.
I wonder how you know which of the supposed leaks are genuine and which are fabrications folded into the genuine? This has reached the point of being accepted as gospel when the source is an anarchist scum whom no one should trust yet we cannot discern?
You’ve got a good point there.
“How in the h*ll do elite corps like ex-berets promote this type of activity? Where is the honor? This is shameful.”
Because they have zero oversight. They answer to no one, and think they are above everyone else.
Still want to let more jihadis in this country?
Given the sheer volume of information being exposed by Wikileaks, it's inevitable that some things will be exposed that really should be exposed. So what do you think should happen to Pvt. Bradley Manning? Do you believe he should be given a Medal of Honor? I think he should be executed.
I got a hunch that technically, boy buggery parties are banned in Afghanistan, though the nod and wink is widespread.
Afghan Muslims have enslaved little boys for sex ever since they converted to Islam. It’s a Mohammedan thing.
And if they were stoned, it was on their own opium or heroin, grown in the poppy fields of Afghanistan.
I doubt very much if the military contractor had anything to do with this—except that they were training these goat lovers, and found it impossible to stop them from indulging in their usual customs.
Sadly I do hear of various forces putting their “honor” itself before truth telling before duly constituted American authority. It’s like nobody believes in God any more.
One hopes they would draw the line at footing the bills for such parties, even if they could not stop the trainees from indulging themselves.
Yeah I think muslims say “women are for babies, boys are for fun”
Good men who put their lives on the line deserve to know why they're being asked to do so.
Did you not already know islam was like this?
The question is: What are we like?
Most sheeple are not paying attention to what is being leaked and keep mindlessly repeating the false litany of the potential danger to our troops. To the contrary, the leaks you identified should be a catalyst to making our troops safer, if the msm stops their censorship and get our full attention.
This article was posted yesterday, and people reacted totally differently. Today it’s presented as if the US company is the agent of fault, and that’s how people react.
People should stand back from the headlines and consider the facts.
The big issue, and the issue that the Afghan government wanted to cover up, was that THIS IS AFGHANISTAN, THIS IS ISLAM!
The fact that a company with dollar signs in their eyes and loose ethics decided to keep the contract and play the game their way is not the main aspect, or most interesting facet of this story. It’s the facet that the left would push.
$150,000 as a merc trumps $30,000 as a sergeant.
I would imagine, although none of us knows all the facts, that they threw a graduation party for the Afghan police that they had trained. Then the Afghans showed up to celebrate with their pet boys and pockets full of opium.
I doubt whether the company bought boys and opium and passed them around.
So, when these muzzies celebrate their graduation in the usual way, what were their hosts to do? Tell them to stop acting like Muslims and behave themselves?
I certainly agree that this is not nice. But it’s the kind of thing that is going to happen when you try to train stone age Mohammedan savages to fight against the terrorists among them.
Does Wikileaks have any sort of proof that the hosts provided these treats or paid for them? What I remember hearing is that they have a video of Muslims misbehaving in their usual manner. These guys are being paid to train police, not to convert Muslims to civilized Christian behavior. To do that, you’d need to send in missionaries.
The least culpable scenario would be as you envisioned — the contractors were simply surprised at what happened at their graduation party, and not a little dismayed. After all, self control ought to be part of policing — you don’t want cops blitzing themselves out on opium especially if part of their duty is to interdict the stuff. Like a missionary, a trainer needs to know his target culture to be effective.
Actually, no. The Afghan practice predates Islam and only exists among the Pashtuns. It was pretty much stamped out by the Taliban who wanted to prohibit man/boy sex but then it was revived in "democratic Afghanistan." (often courtesy of U.S. tax subsidies). Yet another intended consquence of our world policing foreign policy!P> The Tajiks, by contrast, are against the Pashtun practice of man/boy sex and condemn the Pashtuns as
Actually, no. The Afghan practice predates Islam and only exists among the Pashtuns. It was pretty much stamped out by the Taliban who wanted to prohibit man/boy sex but then it was revived in "democratic Afghanistan." (often courtesy of U.S. tax subsidies). Yet another intended consquence of our world policing foreign policy!
The Tajiks, by contrast, are against the Pashtun practice of man/boy sex and condemn the Pashtuns as "boy buggers."
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