03-12-2010, 12:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2010, 01:10 PM by Carsten Wiethoff.)
This could also be posted under Child Abuse, Drugs, Military Contractors, Afghanistan, Corruption etc.
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec...ncing-boys
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Edit: There it is:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embas...nts/213720
Its heading contains the words "Kunduz Dyncorp Problem" ...
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec...ncing-boys
Quote:A scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" to entertain them in northern Afghanistan caused such panic that the interior minister begged the US embassy to try and "quash" the story, according to one of the US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks.Rest of copyrighted article at above link. I haven't been able to access the original cable text yet.
In a meeting with the assistant US ambassador, a panicked Hanif Atmar, the interior minister at the time of the episode last June, warned that the story would "endanger lives" and was particularly concerned that a video of the incident might be made public.
Edit: There it is:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embas...nts/213720
Its heading contains the words "Kunduz Dyncorp Problem" ...
The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".

