Drunken Hooker-Loving U.S. Contractors Irritate Official Afghanis

WASHINGTON (AP) — At two in the morning on Sept. 9, 2005, five DynCorp International security guards assigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s protective detail returned to their compound drunk, with a prostitute in tow. Less than a week later, three of these same guards got drunk again, this time in the VIP lounge of the Kabul airport while awaiting a flight to Thailand.

“They had been intoxicated, loud and obnoxious,” according to an internal company report of the incident, which noted that Afghanistan’s deputy director for elections and a foreign diplomat were also in the lounge. “Complaints were made regarding the situation.” DynCorp fired the three guards.

Such episodes represent the headaches that U.S. contractors can cause in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. They are indispensable to the State Department’s mission overseas, handling security, transportation, construction, food service and more. But when hired hands behave badly — or break the law — they cast a cloud over the American presence.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act describe previously undisclosed offenses committed by more than 200 contract employees in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries between 2004 and 2008. They were working under a broad State Department security services contract shared by DynCorp of Falls Church, Va.; Triple Canopy of Reston, Va.; and the company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide — Xe Services of Moyock, N.C.

Most of the infractions, which include excessive drinking, drug use, sexual misconduct and mishandling weapons, were violations of corporate and U.S. policies that probably went unnoticed by ordinary Afghans and Iraqis. But other offenses played out in public, undermining U.S. efforts in both countries and raising questions about how carefully job candidates are screened.

Despite complaints from foreign capitals about reckless behavior and heavy-handed tactics, U.S. contractors are more important than ever. In Iraq, the departure of U.S. combat forces has left a security and logistics support vacuum to be filled by the private sector.

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Online:

http://www.state.gov/m/ds/

http://www.xeservices.com

http://www.dyn-intl.com/

http://www.triplecanopy.com

http://www.pscouncil.org

http://www.stability-operations.org

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  • southernloyalty
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:36pm

    Great way to represent the us. How dare the Afghanis violate an Americans right to be a scumbag. They should have just let the Afghanis deal with them right there, its their country and it happened there. Do you think the military is much better. I was in the military oversea’s, the vast majority do nothing but get drunk and try to pick up juicies(hookers). Ever wonder why Japan wanted the marines our of Okinawa. I do blame the Japanese, I wouldn’t want the organization which holds a bunch of Americas screws up on my island either. About a quarter of the military these days are honorable people who joined to protect their country. The rest are loosers who either knocked up some girl at an early age and need a paycheck, or failed out of school and have no other means of making money. Not trying to come down on the military, but go see for yourself. Its become a horde of scumbags.

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    • TheRealElvis
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:09pm

      The Japanese bombed Peal Harbor and killed 3,000 people (American citizens and military). While deceiving us negotiating peace in Washington. If we want to get drunk anywhere that the Japanese don’t want us, it’s their problem. The winners of the war get the country. Not the other way around. Get it? We are nice people so we gave it back. But they still should show respect. We gave them a world power economy and we gave them free trade to America. (more lost jobs)
      Isn’t our Congress great?? We need to start over.

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    • chfields62
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 8:37pm

      Its pretty obvious you know nothing about the military. They haven’t allowed just anybody to join in over 20 years. You are now required to have a high school diploma and a minimum 3.0 GPA, you cannot have been convicted of any felonies and most misdemeanors. Are there some lowlifes, of course, they are everywhere, but the majority are good, patriotic Americans fighting for YOUR freedom. DO NOT compare them to private contractors(overrated security guards). Comparing their behavior to the terrorists they are fighting, is about as intelligent as comparing a shoplifter to a serial killer.

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  • LoseDog
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:21pm

    Everyone wants to pile on to percieved misconduct by American’s overseas, but they quickly forget the poor behavior of the UN Diplomatic Corps in New York. The UN Diplomatic Corp has been a plague to American law enforcement and citizens for over 60 years. Why do we tolerate this kind of behavior from so called diplomats, if they are such assets to their individual countries and a joy for the host country, then I am sure the Hauge would be glad to host the UN.

    I was in a US Air Force school in the early 80′s and the Saudi Lieutenants in the other class acted like animals. The cleaning staff of the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) had to clean pizza off the ceiling of the rooms and deal with the disrespectful way these foreign “officers” treated women. They believed that since we were “infidels” even back then, that they didn’t need to respect our culture or our laws.

    These contractors represent the American companies that hire them, not the US Military or Government. It is the height of hipocracy that so many are outraged by their conduct overseas, but tolerate the misconduct of foreign national here in the United States. What about the criminal illegal aliens who commit crims from fraud to murder and get a pass on their behavior, because they are just here doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do and the rest of the progressive talking points.

    When we tolerate the poor behavior of “guests” in our own country, to feign shock at the conduct of American overseas is a bit over the top.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:17pm

    come Jan 2013, we’ll get a real AMERICAN in the White House, and send a message: if you’re American, get back here, cos once we seal OUR borders that is IT.

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    • chips1
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 7:34pm

      I heard there isn’t anything after 2012. THE END

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  • 60yroldfemale
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:16pm

    Let’s see… Wikiwaki releases State Dept. cables.
    Probably leaked by State Dept. staffers
    Afgan government wonks are embarrassed by cables
    Maybe chew out MS. Clinton.
    This week Hilary announces that she will increase State Dept. security.
    By growing the State Dept.(she is hiring a pant load of new federal employees) and by extension the Fed. govt.
    We get story about bad, bad private contractors.
    There are patterns here that remind me of the psychedelic posters from the 70′s.
    Ya gotta look really hard.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:15pm

    for a country that wraps their women in ugly muslim blue sheets and goes around stoning them to death, where are these men finding ANY hookers except for all those gay men in Pashtun?!

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  • Eyeball
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:03pm

    Maybe there were loud and obnoxious, but they weren’t cutting the ears and noses off of women were they? Were they stoning anyone? Cutting off heads? Mutilating their daughters? Punishing a women because she was raped?

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  • GeauxAlready
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:55pm

    Drunken ******-Loving U.S. Contractors Irritate Official Afghanis………

    Who are forbiden to get drunk and play with Hookers. Instead they’ll just stay home and rape the wife and beat the kids……….

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  • burnteye86
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:51pm

    See, that’s what the rest of the world hates about us Americans..the freedom to get drunk if we want.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:42pm

    I’m tired of this Jimmy Swaggert bashing. If h’e in Afganistan, it must be for some good purposes.

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  • Chicago Ray
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:39pm

    I didn’t know the liberals were so prevalent in the war contractor area.

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  • GumbyGunslinger
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:34pm

    It just goes to show you can find hooligans even in Afghanistan. BTW, I thought prostitution didn’t exist in Afghanistan…. oops…. that was homosexuals and Iran…. My bad!

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  • gotea
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:33pm

    This is why we shouldn’t let people from New Jersey travel. lol Southerners would be quiet with their hookers and booze.

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  • mtnclimberjim
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:28pm

    At war and they worry about drunks with hookers. We lose.

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  • AmericanMomma
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:22pm

    Right on Elvis!

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:14pm

    The level of boredom in Afghanistan must be horrific.. Islam allows for ‘temporary’ wives so it’s nothing new to them..

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:13pm

    I can’t really see other than being loud and obnoxious what they were doing wrong. People get hookers all the time, if they didn‘t there wouldn’t be any. Unless they were getting drunk on duty then I can’t see why they were fired.

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  • TheRealElvis
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:11pm

    Our culture allows for that type of behavior. Their culture does not. So we send our culture to save their culture. And everybody wants to know why we are failing in Afganistan and Iraq. DUH! Could it be they have to save themselves if they want to be saved?

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    • Nvrforget
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:13pm

      That’s a big part of the problem, yes. You can’t “democraticize” a country. The populace has to accept democracy on their own, it cannot be forced on them.

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    • ADDICTED TO TRUTH
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:27pm

      Yes the Secret Service is notorious for bringing hookers to the White House…..

      I don’t care if it takes 50 years, I do NOT want the Taliban back in there. Yes, the PEOPLE will have to want it, but you also have to allow time for the ppl to realize WHAT they want. You have an entire generation that has been brutalized and oppressed, murdered, tortured and terrorized. Do not expect them to wake up tomorrow and suddenly trust the USA or Karzai or anyone else for that matter. It will take TIME, just like it did HERE.

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  • squeaker
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:07pm

    was that michele o doing her side job…?

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  • ADDICTED TO TRUTH
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:06pm

    I’d be drunk at every opportunity too if I was stuck in that 16th century h-hole.

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  • NoDaDAZone
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:06pm

    Intoxicated, loud, obnoxious and hookers. Well, thats not as obnoxious as throwing acid on women’s faces like the Taliban. And I’m sure the ****** got paid.

    http://www.marcrubin.com/dada.ivnu

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    • Nvrforget
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:10pm

      We’re slightly less bad than the Taliban! USA! USA!

      No really, you should aim for something better than comparing us to the Taliban dude. Since when has “slightly better” been in the American vocabulary?

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    • NoDaDAZone
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:17pm

      I didn’t say “slightly better”, you did. These guards didn’t break any laws. IMHO people are free to be as obnoxious as they want, so long as they don’t physically harm others.

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    • Nvrforget
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:29pm

      They’re representing America to the world and should know how to behave. They’re creating tensions with their behavior which may put other contractors in danger. Also, they were fired, so obviously it was against their code of conduct.

      And yes, I said “slightly better”. But you made the comparison to the Taliban which is absurd in itself. That would be like saying “Well, American military operations killed thousands of innocent civilians, but STALIN…” You see where I’m coming from?

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    • NoDaDAZone
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:52pm

      Except these guys aren’t murderers, their just jerks. And even a jerk can be insulted by barbarism and hypocrisy this defines the Taliban and Karzai. Blame it on Islam, for “even the worst terrorist has more morality than Allah of the Koran” (Wafa Sultan – paraphrase)

      Nobody worries about insulting Americans and barbarians never worry that their behavior is an affront to a universal code of civil-humane conduct. And the fact these guys were fired, shows we have a sense of honor and appropriate conduct.

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:05pm

      We tend to think of our nation as a nation of laws. Laws that describe the minimum acceptable behavior. When encountering someone who uses the term “with in the law”, you maybe talking to a bottom feeder.

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  • Sledgehammer
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:00pm

    Dyncorp, is the least of the things that P.O. the Afghan, They foolishly tried to arrest a Marine, for praying, damn near lost their army (not to insult a real army like ours). What doesn’t ander them?

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 2:56pm

    Another example of the Ugly American. I thought we were past this sort of thing? I guess the social engineers of our time failed.

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    • chips1
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 7:26pm

      Let me get this straight. The LEFT preaches “Make Love, Not War” and when some actually do it, The LEFT gets mad. Lets just start chopping heads off and show them we are trying to assimulate.

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  • HoosierDaddy
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 2:53pm

    …yawn…

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  • Nvrforget
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 2:50pm

    DynCorp? Wasn’t the same company involved in that child slave sex ring in Afghanistan, financed (of course) by US tax money?

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 2:45pm

    lmao

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:09pm

      Why is it, that so many people who go abroad and could represent the US in a positive way, turn out to be total, embarassing tools? Certainly doesn’t help our image in the rest of the world.

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    • Bad Thunder
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:18pm

      so what’s the problem? sounds just like Washington …………

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    • Lincoln1
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:40pm

      The onus would be put on the Company hiring the people, a lack of a thorough background check, filling bodies quickly to meet contract demands and the lack of personnel with supervisory skills and motivation. Most that apply for the job go for the big bucks, mostly in the 100 K realm, are ex military, security, police or trained people in those skills asked for on this mission. I know many who are overseas on these type of assignments and know that they have to deal with that certain few that cast the shadow on all. The main reason is that they are human and truly believe that they can get away with it, no one will know and it is the nature of the beast

      Lincoln1  
    • Balladeer
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:53pm

      TXPILOT then maybe we should all stay home….as well as pull our soldiers home and keep our money Home the world doesn’t like us even though we have saved their collective socialist a$$ time and time again…TXPILOT before you go all judgmental just remember what 19 Muslim ‘tourists’ did on 9-11-01 HERE in the USA…..of and for audio reference unless it offends your ‘feelings’ tender as they are…This was popular in 74…give a Listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_hbaYtJ2aw

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    • JESUS-IS-LORD
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:48pm

      Pro 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
      Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

      Thou art human, therefore be thou this.
      Nothing to do with being American. Amen.

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    • guyperram
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:02pm

      What;s the problem? A bunch of girls want to make some money selling what they want to sell, or A CRAZED MUSLIM BOMBER BLOWING HIMSELF UP, ALONG WITH A BUNCH OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, SO HE CAN GO TO THEIR “HEAVEN” AND RAPE HIS 77 VIRGINS?
      Sure looks different when you put whats happening today in reality, doesn’t it?

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 6:14pm

      WE go over and get drunk and whore a little…yes, very bad…

      THEY come here, get drunk, whore a little and fly planes into buildings….I think that’s worse.
      Just sayin’…

      Mohammed was a Pedophile.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 6:21pm

      @Balladeer – Don’t you accuse me of being some sort of PC idiot…..you should take the time to read my post just a little more carefully. I certainly don’t agree with how we are treated by the rest of the world however, I don’t see why when Americans go abroad, they need to act like jerks. Let all the Muslims and others out there do that….if we are to define ourselves as better than many of the other groups of rabble in the world, then we had dammed well better act like we are better. If Americans are seen to be drunken, peverted slobs by others around the world, then that brings all our reputations down…..And as for my “tender feelings” you accuse me of…..I assure you that when the time comes to protect this country from those that would destroy it…..I will be right there in the front lines to help……And this is no idle assertion, because I have been there before….I am retired military and proud of my service…and if called to serve again….I will be there.

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    • Tyrone
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 6:47pm

      Obviously these contractors were not cited by the local police. If there is such a thing. But the muslims never miss an opportunity to use our left wing media to show how evil America is.

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    • Tyrone
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 6:53pm

      Why is there always so many replys to the original comment? Why can’t we reply to the replies? Some of them deserve it because thet have nothing to do with the comment.

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    • Dale
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 9:04pm

      TXPilot;

      Not to worry, we have obomba to shape our world image. Yeah!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:02am

      @DALE – Sorry, but your comment has utterly failed to reassure me…..lol……good try though

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 3:15am

      welcome to congress… lyin’, thievin’ whores…..

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