News Source: Telegraph India
| 3 months ago
Two more have resigned and all ten have been sent home immediately. The entire Kabul senior management team of ArmorGroup North America, the private contractor providing the guards, has been replaced, an embassy spokesman said. Secretary of state...
News Source: Corpwatch
| 3 months ago
Wackenhut aids inquiry into its Afghanistan contractor September 3rd, 2009 The parent company of a security contractor said Thursday it is "fully cooperating" in the investigation of allegations that the contractor allowed mistreatment, sexual...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| 3 months ago
The US embassy in Afghanistan says it has fired eight security guards who were photographed taking part in lewd acts during alcohol-fuelled parties at their living quarters in Kabul. The individuals from ArmorGroup, a private security company, were...
News Source: BBC South Asia
| 3 months ago
The embassy said the guards, who were photographed in various stages of nudity, had now left Afghanistan. Embassy officials did not confirm the guards' nationalities or names. A standards watchdog revealed the scandal this week saying guards had...
News Source: Gawker
| 3 months ago
The State Department announced today that eight of the security contractors in Kabul who were featured drinking "buttshots" of vodka off one another in photos we published Tuesday have been fired , and two more quit. The U.S. embassy in Kabul also...
News Source: CNN
| 3 months ago
Ten private security guards accused of wrongdoing at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan have been fired or resigned and were leaving the country Friday, U.S. officials said. Allegations surfaced last week that contractor ArmorGroup North America...