On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Jim Devine<[email protected]> wrote: > from SLATE: > Yesterday, a government watchdog group said the private contractors who guard > the U.S. Embassy in Kabul have engaged in "lewd and deviant" behavior. > According to the Project on Government Oversight, the guards worked in a > "Lord of the Flies environment" where supervisors held weekly parties that > included lots of homoerotic hazing sessions—including urinating on each other > and drinking vodka poured off exposed butts—and those who didn't participate > feared they would lose their jobs. Gawker has some disturbing photographic > evidence. In other Afghanistan news, the country's deputy chief of > intelligence was killed in a suicide blast today and a U.N. report says opium > cultivation has declined for the second year in a row. The amount of poppy > cultivation decreased by 22 percent, and one-third of Afghanistan's territory > is considered to be virtually opium-free. >
The security company involved is owned by Wackenhut which is in the loathsome business of running for-profit private prisons. -raghu. -- "Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
