Kabul-based Watan Risk Management was among the private companies fingered in recent media reports alleging that the firms are paying off insurgents to protect supply routes, essentially funnelling international funds to the very groups troops are fighting against.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/04/27/private-security-afghanistan-lang.html#ixzz0mP6klaOf
Read the story and watch the video accompanying it.
Most who have been to Afghanistan will admit that bribery is an everyday event in the lives of Afghanis. I saw it all too often.
It was also common in Bosnia, for folks to get through the various' factions check points.
This is the type of shit facing our troops in Afghanistan. And the US, UK, French and German Troops and others. Here is a convicted drug dealer that can go back to Afghanistan and still have enought family ties to build up a private security business. This guy denies any bribes, but he is after all a drug dealer and a Afhghani, so lying comes natural for him and his ilk...
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