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ABC News"Sex Party" Contractor in Afghanistan Loses Kabul Contract – But Some Employees May StayThe fallout from the revelation of alcohol-fueled sex parties among private contractors guarding the U.S. Embassy in Kabul has now cost the company providing security at the embassy its job. ArmorGroup North America, the company that employed the guards implicated in the scandal, has lost its contract to provide perimeter protection around the embassy compound.
The State Department today said the decision not to renew the contract was a direct result of the behavior of some of the guards, as well as previous concerns about ArmorGroup's ability to adequately staff the contract. Photos and video of the sex parties and reports of hazing of new employees were featured in ABC News reports earlier this year.
"The Department's Office of Acquisitions Management (AQM), Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), and Embassy Kabul reviewed the status of the contract and concurred that the next option year should not be exercised and that work begin immediately to compete a new contract," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told ABC News. "A senior level review of the recent misconduct allegations against AGNA personnel, combined with AGNA's history of contract compliance deficiencies, have led DS, AQM, and Embassy Kabul to conclude that it is in the best interests of the Government to complete a new contract."
According to an internal ArmorGroup e-mail leaked to The Project on Government Oversight (POGO), the Washington watchdog group that first published shocking photos of the sex parties, several ArmorGroup employees may remain in place and could be hired on by the new contractor. A State Department spokesman could not say which contractors would be allowed to stay on.
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