03-12-2010, 01:14 PM
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote: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
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" ...
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Delightful DynCorp - way to go. All those hard men drooling over a dancing boy. Very Turkish.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14