03-12-2010, 01:12 PM
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:This could also be posted under Child Abuse, Drugs, Military Contractors, Afghanistan, Corruption etc.This story was exposed and we have some posts here about it. I don't know if the video made it into the public though. Dynacorp. Amongst others.
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.
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