WASHINGTON: Private contractors hired by the US government have jeopardized security at the American embassy in Kabul with lewd, drunken conduct and an understaffed guard force at a time of rising violence in the Afghan capital, a watchdog group said on Tuesday.
The non-partisan Project on Government Oversight sent US secretary of state Hillary Clinton a letter documenting complaints about guards working for ArmorGroup, North America, and photos of nearly naked men behaving lewdly at their camp.
The firm employs 450 guards to provide security at the Kabul embassy under a five-year, $189 million State Department contract. The department extended the contract in June.
Pictures obtained by the group showed male guards, scantily dressed in G-string style garments, dancing around a bonfire and urinating while others snapped photographs. Video showed them pouring alcohol down the bare backside of a new recruit and trying to drink it as it spilled from the man’s buttocks. [ SEE PICTURES BELOW ]
According to one whistle-blower, these naked pool parties involving sexually deviant acts have been held regularly for at least a year and a half, at the urging of senior officers.
These are the latest of many allegations of misconduct by private security contractors hired by the US government to perform duties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“These are very serious allegations and we are treating them that way,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said at a briefing, adding that the issue had been turned over to the department’s inspector general.
About 150 guards are Americans or from other English-speaking countries. The remaining 300 are identified by the Project on Government Oversight as Gurkhas from India and Nepal who speak little or no English. The group said the language barrier between English-speakers and Gurkhas was so severe it would be difficult for them to communicate in a crisis.
—————————————————-
References: ABCNews | Reuters |
—————————————————-
This is ample proof that Abu Ghraib was not an isolated incident. Sexually deviant behavior (accompanied with prisoner torture) amongst US Military personnel and hired guns (guards) who are mostly ex-military, is rampant in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why?
Because this animal behavior is tolerated and orchestrated by deviant senior military officers — who get a sexual kick out of it. The hierarchical command structure of a military force, especially the most potent one in the world, cannot witness such behavior without putting a stop to it — unless, as in this instance, and many others, the crude animalistic rituals are encouraged and sanctioned by senior military and private militia officials. In fact, in an interview with ABC News, one guard, a U.S. military veteran, said top supervisors of the ArmorGroup were not only aware of the “deviant sexual acts” but helped to organize them.
Torture and sexual abuse are part of a systematic military/militia program deployed by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, unbeknownst to Obama, who is busy fending other menacing tea-bagging hyenas at home front.
The Bush Conservatives worked overtime to portray the events at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq, as nothing more than fraternity pranks, and not blatant violations of the Geneva Convention. Right-wing pundits, like Rush Limbaugh, tried to sweep under the rug any investigations into prisoner abuse, whether it was at Abu Ghraib or at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was all an isolated incident involving a few soldiers, the Bush administration said.
The problem with that analysis is this: it was not true then and it’s not now. The Bush torture program is still intact, and it seems Obama thinks it ended — when he decided to holding back thousands of pictures depicting homosexual torture and bestiality — involving guard dogs.
Imperialist torture is nothing new. The Brits were masters at it, and the United States picked up where the European colonialists left of. The British — the greediest land grabbing thieves the world has ever known, ran horrific torture camps. They invaded countries, stole massive tracts land, and imprisoned entire civilian population in detention camps — wherein testicles were crushed, electric shocks were administered, cigarettes and fire were used to wantonly inflict physical and mental suffering on natives. Broken bottles, gun barrels, knives, snakes, vermin and hot eggs were thrust up men’s rectums and women’s vaginas. The British whipped, shot, burned, and mutilated “suspects.”
I am not surprised at the lewd behavior of these “Guards” (soldiers of fortune) — it’s in the DNA — the horrors of European colonialism, the American lynchings during slavery, and the 500 pound bombings on Iraqi civilians in the last eight years, is testament.
To make matters worse, the US military has been granting more waivers to recruits with criminal backgrounds — this process has grown nearly 65 percent in the last five years, increasing to 8,129 in 2006 from 4,918 in 2003 …., Department of Defense records show. The sharpest increase was in waivers issued for serious misdemeanors, which make up the bulk of all the Army’s moral waivers. These include aggravated assault, burglary, robbery and vehicular homicide. The number of waivers issued for felony convictions also increased, from 8 percent to 11 percent of the 8,129 moral waivers granted in 2006. [ Source: New York Times ]
One can only imagine how lax the “for profit” private militia companies like ArmorGroup are in their recruitment process. It must be horrible!
Yes, deviant criminals with a license to kill!!
Before Army Sgt. 1st Class Randal Ruby was accused in Iraq of beating prisoners and of conspiring to plant rifles on dead civilians, he amassed a 10-year criminal record in Colorado and Washington state for assaulting his wife and in Maine for a drunken high-speed police chase, for which he remains wanted.
Before Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes stabbed an Iraqi private to death, angering the soldier’s unit of coalition soldiers, he was hospitalized after threatening suicide in high school, accused of assault, disorderly conduct and trespassing, and, in the months leading up to deployment, twice linked to drug use.
Before Army Spc. Shane Carl Gonyon was convicted of stealing a pistol at Abu Ghraib prison, he was convicted twice on felony charges and arrested four times, once for allegedly giving a 13-year-old girl marijuana in exchange for oral sex. He enlisted weeks after his release from a federal prison in Oregon.
…..and more here
The lax regulations have also opened the military’s doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists and gang members — with drastic consequences. Some neo-Nazis have been charged with crimes inside the military, and others have been linked to recruitment efforts for the white right. A recent Department of Homeland Security report, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” stated: “The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.”
Therefore, it should not surprise anyone that a sizeable chunk of “America’s Finest” are dangerous criminals, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and tea-bagger terrorists out to lynch anyone who doesn’t look like them — and while doing so, involve themselves in lewd, sexually deviant and animalistic acts as we see in the pictures below, and previously in Abu Ghraib:
|
|
||
Morning Joe Team Tries To Justify Lewd Behavior!
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Popularity: unranked [?]
Sphere: Related Content
