WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes

[Joanne98]

Anything interesting to be had at the intersection of the WikiLeaks cache of diplomatic cables and those military contractors that cart off many millions of taxpayer dollars to facilitate their profit-seeking misadventures in the world's zones of forever war? Glad you asked! Here on these pages is the latest news of one of my favorite private military contractors, courtesy of David Isenberg:

Now, courtesy of Wikileaks, DynCorp can look forward to a new round of ridicule and denunciations.
As first reported by the British Guardian newspaper, on June 24, 2009 the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan sent a cable to Washington, under the signature of Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, regarding a meeting between Assistant Chief of Mission Joseph Mussomeli and Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar. Among the issues discussed was what diplomats delicately called the "Kunduz DynCorp Problem." Kunduz is a northern province of Afghanistan.

The problem was this:

1. In a May 2009 meeting interior minister Hanif Atmar expresses deep concerns that if lives could be in danger if news leaked that foreign police trainers working for US commercial contractor DynCorp hired "dancing boys" to perform for them.
"Dancing boys!" Just how concerned/disturbed should you be about this? As it turns out, very: these "dancing boys" are part of a very sick tradition called "Bacha Bazi." Isenberg links to an excellent "Frontline" documentary about the practice in his post, but if you're looking for something succinct, let's send you over to John Nova Lomax at the Houston Press:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-reveals-that-mi_n_793816.html

[Crazy Dave]

1. Outraged!

American tax dollars pays those military contractors to hire "dancing boys" :mad:

2009 eh? Guess whose watch that was under. Thank God it wasn't water-boarding or people here on DU would be pissed :puke:

[CoffeeCat]

2. More and more evidence...

...piles on about the elites, corporatists and corrupt politicians--who want to rule
the world.

DynCorp, as well as Blackwater and other corporations that get special government
contracts--are inextricably intertwined with our government. And of course they
know what is happening. Remember when Blackwater was accused of rape and other
horrendous crimes? This is not all coincidence. This entire fusion of government
and corporate crimes is pathological, and they all cover for each other.

They are sick. They are brutal sociopaths and psychopaths. Child molesters are very
warped, broken people who seek out opportunities to abuse, demoralize and gain power
by powering up on the innocent and powerless.

This is the tip of the iceberg. I am sure the injustices are stomach churning, and include
more than child molestation. I am sure they are all robbing us blind, purposely trying
to harm us (economically, emotionally) because they can. They get off on causing suffering.

Thank God for Wikileaks. Slowly, this corrupt, slimy group of freaks can be outted.

[Robbien]

3. "mine is not a day over twelve"

So sick/sad
from the article

Ben Johnston recoiled in horror when he heard one of his fellow helicopter mechanics at a U.S. Army base near Tuzla, Bosnia, brag one day in early 2000: "My girl's not a day over 12."

The man who uttered the statement -- a man in his 60s, by Johnston's estimate -- was not talking fondly about his granddaughter or daughter or another relative. He was bragging about the preteen he had purchased from a local brothel. Johnston, who'd gone to work as a civilian contractor mechanic for DynCorp Inc. after a six-year stint in the Army, had worked on helicopters for years, and he'd heard a lot of hangar talk. But never anything like this.
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More and more often in those months, the talk among his co-workers had turned to boasts about owning prostitutes -- how young they were, how good they were in bed, how much they cost. And it wasn't just boasting: Johnston often saw co-workers out on the streets of Dubrave, the closest town to the base, with the young female consorts that inspired their braggadocio. They'd bring them to company functions, and on one occasion, Johnston says, over to his house for dinner. Occasionally he'd see the young girls riding bikes and playing with other children, with their "owners" standing by, watching.

I saw that Frontline piece and how scarred the rescued children were. Our country is sick and the sickness spreads like a cancer through many of it citizens.

[yurbud]

4. kick

[xchrom]

5. It's more important to complain about assange than this I guess. Nt