U.S. Embassy in Kabul Not Safe Say Former Managers

[sabra]

Source: ABC News


Former Employees Allege Security Firm Defrauded the U.S. to Win $187 Million Contract

Two former employees of the private firm in charge of handling security at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul say they were fired after raising concerns about the safety at the embassy and for sharing their concerns with the State Department.

They plan to file a lawsuit tomorrow alleging that their employer won the $187 million contract only after it significantly overstated its capabilities and the experience of its staff.

"This is a clear-cut case of corporate greed taking priority over national security concerns," said the attorney for the plaintiffs Debra Katz of the law firm Katz, Marshall, and Banks. The suit is also being filed by the Government Accountability Project.

The lawsuit is being filed against ArmorGroup North American (AGNA), based in Virginia, and ArmorGroup International (AGI) based in the United Kingdom.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4713538&page=1

[bdamomma]

1. I am waiting to hear the same kind of news about the embassy in Iraq

[RussBLib]

3. I expect mortar barrages any day ...

So we've spent billions on this massive embassy in Baghdad...

And what is going to keep the "insurgents" from lobbing mortars into that brand-new boondoggle of an embassy??

[LynnTheDem]

2. Choppers off the Green Zone roof(s), baby!

Which will be first; Afghanistan or Iraq?

[Blaze Diem]

4. Who own AGNA ???? Carlyle ? Blackwater? Crony profiteer no doubt.

I'll be right back..got some googling to do.
I'm betting on crony profiteer....

[Blaze Diem]

5. Well they are not giving that info away easily. Impressive website tho,

but still having a hard time finding who they truely are owned by..which Bush/Cheney crony belongs to this group.
War for profit - ya gotta be part of Bush's "base".


http://www.armorgroupamerica.com/

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