CNN: Male Sexual Hazing & Breakdown Of Discipline At US Embassy In Kabul

[Turborama]

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Cross post from LBN

Shocking Hazing at U.S. Embassy in Kabul

Source: CBS

On August 4, rockets land near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. On August 15, a suicide bomber hits close by killing or wounding 98. The attacks punctuate the dangers faced by hundreds of American diplomats and staff who work there. Yet some of the Embassy's own security guards are alleging shocking work conditions that put American lives at risk.

In numerous e-mails, the guards describe a crisis in discipline and morale, understaffing, sleep deprivation, "threats and intimidation." One guard refers to a group of guards and supervisors from the security contractor ArmorGroup as "sexual predators, deviants running rampant."

Guards provided dozens of graphic photos and videos depicting shocking scenes of hazing and humiliation by superiors, most of them too lewd to show. The guards recount a climate of fear and coercion where those who refuse to participate are retaliated against, even fired.

The State Department contracts with a private security firm - ArmorGroup North America, owned by Wackenhut. ArmorGroup employs 450 guards at the Kabul Embassy - two-thirds from Nepal and India, the rest from the U.S. and other English-speaking nations. Fifteen guards have brought their concerns about embassy security to the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/01/eveningnews/main5280465.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2009/09/01/home/photoessay5280529.shtml">Images of alleged hazing (Graphic Content)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5280628n&tag=related;photovideo">Additional video of Kabul hazing (Graphic Content)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/01/world/main5279801.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.3">Group: U.S. Embassy security in Kabul risky

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Sec_Clinton_Letter_09-01-09.pdf">Letter to Sec. Clinton describing abuses (.pdf)

[burrowowl]

1. K&R

[RandomThoughts]

2. So if someone joins a secret society, and they do not protect that society above everything else.

Then those silly hazing are suddenly blackmail evidence used as a threat of humiliation if they do not go along.

If you are in college, and at a frat party, just think, it might be being done to be used to try and control your political or economic life.

Just get them on film in a terrible way, and then use that for blackmail and intimidation.

I doubt if those contractors were doing the hazings just for humiliation.

[Turborama]

3. Very good points, well made. Hadn't thought of it like that before.

Who knows what's been hidden over the years by this practice - in the military and political spectrum.

[RandomThoughts]

4. And until people can get over viewing 30 seconds of someones life as how they are defined,

we have an issue with control handed to anyone that can magnify what they want and show it out of perspective.

People that have done well, but also have faults, should be seen by the totality of their actions, not just what some group wants you to think about them. Many good people doing good things were smeared out of office wrongly, and I would guess many others are under that fear also.

And they don't even need anything real, someone can make up a smear, as long as it is carried on the news some will believe it. If you don't believe me just look at Birthers, death panels, or the many other swift boating that has been done.

So the use of intimidation has to be stood up to, if you see someone smeared, think of it in context and defend those people. It is not the entirety or maybe not even at all who they are.

[Turborama]

5. PBS Report On This (Video & Transcript) >>>

Security Contractors Under Scrutiny at U.S. Embassy in Kabul

A nonpartisan watchdog on Tuesday charged that language barriers, overwork, and lewd behavior by U.S. government contractors are undermining security at the American embassy in Kabul. Margaret Warner reports.

MARGARET WARNER: Just two weeks ago, outside NATO headquarters in Kabul, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-filled car at a checkpoint. The blast killed seven people and wounded 91.

But the real target, said a Taliban spokesman, was not the NATO mission, but the U.S. Embassy, part of the same huge installation just down a closed road from the NATO site. As more American troops and treasure pour into Afghanistan, there are new questions about whether one of the most tempting U.S. targets for terrorists, the American Embassy, is being adequately protected.

Today, the Project on Government Oversight, an independent watchdog group, laid out allegations of serious misconduct and security lapses by ArmorGroup. That's the private security company that guards the Embassy, under a $189 million contract with the State Department.

ArmorGroup, which is owned by a Florida-based firm called Wackenhut deploys a force of 450 men in Kabul. One hundred and fifty are so-called expats, former military and policemen from English-speaking countries. Three hundred are so-called Gurkhas from Nepal or Northern India.

The watchdog group's letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today detailed allegations from more than a dozen current and former expat ArmorGroup guards.

Continues: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec09/embassy_09-01.html

PBS Streaming Video: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=1092009&seg=4

YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHuG0P3nWes

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7. Where do these psychopaths come from?

IS a practice of the private contractors to pick depraved, perverted, psychopathic bullies to protect and REPRESENT the USA abroad?

These monsters belong in jail.