Sunday 27 February 2011

Making A Killing In Kabul


Two of the Westerners jump out and take up position behind the bonnet of the car. One of them shouts into his radio: ‘Mayday mayday mayday’. Back at headquarters, the nearest military base is alerted: the convoy needs help.
Pointing their assault rifles towards a collection  of mud houses, the guards return fire and hold off the assailants until the military arrive with helicopters to evacuate them.
Attacks like this happen on an almost daily basis across Afghanistan. But the men needing rescue in this instance are not soldiers. They are private security contractors paid vast sums of money to guard aid projects and foreign embassies, and to transport the supplies needed for British and other foreign troops on the front line.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1360216/How-make-killing-Kabul-Western-security-crisis-Afghanistan.html#ixzz1FBcvIKYE

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