Security assigned to watch guards at Kabul embassy

Source: Associated Press

KABUL — The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has banned alcohol and assigned American personnel to watch over the embassy's security guards following allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living quarters.

An independent watchdog group alleged this week guards hired by a private contractor were threatened and intimidated at their offsite living quarters, and photos were released of guards and supervisors in various stages of nudity at parties flowing with booze.

The State Department inspector general is leading an investigation of the contractor, ArmorGroup North America.

Ambassador Karl Eikenberry held a meeting with embassy staff on Thursday to discuss the situation, said embassy spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.

"We've already started to make changes to remedy some of the problems," Hayden said.

Alcohol has been prohibited at Camp Sullivan — the offsite location where ArmorGroup guards live — and diplomatic security staff have been assigned to the camp, the embassy said.





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So now we have guards for the guards?

Aye-yi-yi

We could always, like, you know, just handle the guarding stuff with our own guards and stuff. But that's not the way things are done in these days of oursourcing wars and occupation to for-profit campaign contributors. And besides, changing that bush-era tradition would be far to "changy" and stuff.

:eyes:

No more hair of the dog that bit you.

The rest are probably mostly ex-UK military types, some ex-US, and various mercenary scum swept up by the London recruiters.

ArmorGroup is headquartered in London, although the ArmorGroup North America unit is under the Wackenhut subsidiary of G4S. G4S is the parent company of all this and is headquartered in London. ArmorGroup NA was undoubtedly stuck under Wackenhut after G4S acquired ArmorGroup, because Wackenhut has (had) better relationships with the government contracting agencies in Washington.