The spring of 2006 I was on my third assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Providing professional development training for the Afghan men and women employed by the Department of State, I returned to a large newly built Embassy – one of the largest in the world. Embassy...
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."The US Embassy in Kabul has fired eight of the guards shown in the lewd photographs, while two others had resigned, and that the contractor’s local management team was also being replaced. The private security...
Remember when the U.S. had some "bad apples" running prisons in Iraq and some more "bad apples" working at Gitmo? Well, looks like it's apple season again, this time in Kabul, Afghanistan."CBS News reports...
Washington Post foreign correspondent Steve Fainaru writes: "To make up the shortfall of not enough troops in Iraq, the government chose to outsource for-profit companies that employed tens of thousands of...
Five Blackwater employees were charged with manslaughter on Monday following an investigation of the security guards who had reportedly killed 17 people after opening fire on a crowd of surrendering Iraqis, and...
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Garda one of Canada's largest private security firms has acquired the British owned Initial Security, making it Canada's largest private Reant-A-Cop company. Coming soon to a picket line near you.
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