Wikileaks Cable: Contractor DynCorp helped pimp boys to Afghani trainees

TalkingDog

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Wed Dec-08-10 02:07 AM
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Wikileaks Cable: Contractor DynCorp helped pimp boys to Afghani trainees

Your tax dollars at work and why Wikileaks is important

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_texas_company_helped.php

So perhaps in the evil world of Realpolitik, in which there is apparently no moral compass US private contractors won't smash to smithereens, it made sense for DynCorp to drug up some Pashtun police recruits and turn them loose on a bunch of little boys. But according to the leaked document, Atmar, the Afghani interior minister, was terrified this story would catch a reporter's ear.

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rainbow4321

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Wed Dec-08-10 02:13 AM
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1. Per another cable, the US got pissed at Pakistan for "sabotaging"

the Dyncorp contract in Pakistan that the US was trying to get going. They listed it amongst a bunch of other actions/inactions of certain Pakistani officials who the US felt were trying to stall US work in Pakistan. Think that they said the Dyncorp contract was going to be used for security for some brass over there. But, yeah, the cable said outright that the contract was "sabatoged". Took that to mean that someone in the US didn't get their way.

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TalkingDog

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Wed Dec-08-10 11:16 AM
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2. bump for mid day readers

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Bragi

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Wed Dec-08-10 11:21 AM
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3. Will this leak put more people in danger?

No, in fact it will probably result in reducing harm.

However, since I gather Wikileaks can claim that there has never been a single recorded fatality associated with any of their leaks, I wonder why they or someone else doesn't do an estimate of the harm reduction resulting from these disclosures. Perhaps a few Aghan boys might be grateful that their molesters have been outed.

Not that anyone in power -- or the snivelling "journalists" fretting about Wikileaks impact -- will have anything to say on that.

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