WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops

[Makalakumu]

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_texas_company_helped.php

Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police.

While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satellite campus at Alliance Airport north of Fort Worth. And if one of the diplomatic cables from the WikiLeaks archive is to be believed, boy howdy, are their doings in Afghanistan shady.



The Afghanistan cable (dated June 24, 2009) discusses a meeting between Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar and US assistant ambassador Joseph Mussomeli. Prime among Atmar's concerns was a party partially thrown by DynCorp for Afghan police recruits in Kunduz Province.



Many of DynCorp's employees are ex-Green Berets and veterans of other elite units, and the company was commissioned by the US government to provide training for the Afghani police. According to most reports, over 95 percent of its $2 billion annual revenue comes from US taxpayers.



And in Kunduz province, according to the leaked cable, that money was flowing to drug dealers and pimps. Pimps of children, to be more precise. (The exact type of drug was never specified.)

US marines directly help the "good" Taliban grow poppies and taxpayer funds are being used to sell the drugs and pimp little boys. Is there a limit to our depravity? When do we say enough is enough? Or do we ignore this and continue to blindly support this war?

 

[billc]

The people responsible need to be arrested and tossed in jail for a long time. What this shows is how government cannot do anything well, and it cannot do most things right. This corruption is what you get when beauracracies run things. That is why I am against more government control over our healthcare, our retirement, what we eat, what we do on the internet. The war is necassary, so we need to root out these bad guys and try to implement it as well as this flawed system can. Maybe we should take half of the I.R.S. agents and turn them loose on government corruption. Track these guys down with the same enthusiasm they track down people who owe the government money.

Keep in mind though, allegations of rape and sex slavery have been following the United Nations troops around for years and noone has done anything about that either. Arrest them all, especially the politicians who took the bribes that made these things possible.

 

[aedrasteia]

"What this shows is how government cannot do anything well, and it cannot do most things right."

Bill,
DynCorp is a private corporation doing privatized work.

Please see their website, including their financials. Whether you agree with the concept of "privatization" or not I don't know. However, many conservatives endorse the concept strongly. Their contention is that private companies can do operations more efficiently and at lower cost. Sadly, as with Blackwater/KBR in Iraq, there are other ramifications.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL

DynCorp International LLC has its origins with two companies formed in 1946 — Land-Air, Inc., and California Eastern Airways.
Land-Air, Inc., which became the predecessor to DynCorp International's Maintenance and Technical Support Services (MTSS) Division, reached a major milestone in 1951, when it was awarded the first Contract Field Teams (CFT) contract by the Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC). Contract field teams provide mission support and depot-level repair to U.S. military aircraft and weapons systems worldwide. DynCorp International and its predecessors have provided services under the CFT program continuously since being awarded that first contract.
Also in 1951, Land-Air, Inc. was acquired by California Eastern Airways, Inc. (later California Eastern Aviation, Inc.). In 1962, California Eastern Aviation, Inc., changed its name to Dynalectron Corporation, and in 1987, Dynalectron changed its name to DynCorp.
In 1998, DynCorp established DynCorp Technical Services, Inc. (DTS), and transferred its existing aerospace and international-division business—including contracts later held by DynCorp International—to the new DTS subsidiary.
In December 2000, DynCorp formed DynCorp International LLC, and transferred to it all of its international business. DynCorp Technical Services LLC continued to perform DynCorp’s domestic contracts.
In March 2003, DynCorp and its subsidiaries were acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). DynCorp remained the parent of its existing subsidiaries, including DTS and DynCorp International LLC, and CSC became their ultimate parent.
In 2004, CSC made a strategic decision to divest itself of its non-core businesses, including security and aviation services. As part of that decision, CSC transferred its aviation services business segment into a separate CSC subsidiary, DTS Aviation Services. The U.S. Government approved the transfer of government prime contracts that were part of this business to DTS Aviation Services on September 30, 2004. On December 12, 2004, DynCorp and CSC entered into an agreement to sell DynCorp International LLC, including its subsidiaries Dyn Marine Services LLC and DTS Aviation Services LLC, to DI Acquisition Corp, an affiliate of Veritas Capital Management. The sale closed on February 11, 2005, and the purchaser was renamed DynCorp International Inc. DynCorp International Inc. is the corporate parent of DynCorp International LLC.


On April 12, 2010, DynCorp International and private investment firm Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. announced a proposed merger, which was completed on July 7, 2010. As a result of the merger, DynCorp International became a private, wholly-owned subsidiary of entities created by affiliates of Cerberus.

 

[5-0 Kenpo]

I read the cable. No where in it does it say that DynCorp had anything to do with the obtaining of children for sex. In fact, it says that "two Afghan police and nine other Afghans" were arrested for facilitating the use of the children.

 

[Tez3]

I read the cable. No where in it does it say that DynCorp had anything to do with the obtaining of children for sex. In fact, it says that "two Afghan police and nine other Afghans" were arrested for facilitating the use of the children.

It's no secret that the Afghan police are basically corrupt. Diplomatically much is made of the 'advances' in training of the police but privately when our people speak of training them etc they say they despair of ever having a proper functioning police force there.The Afghan police don't get paid much and are given little respect by and have even less for the local population. A female higher ranked police officer was assassinated merely for trying to be an effective officer, that she was female didn't help.
The Americans btw aren't solely responsible for training police officers, my force sends officers out there to train the Afghans as well including a female sergeant who was recognised for her work in teaching female Afghan police officers as well as teaching males.

 

[Makalakumu]

I read the cable. No where in it does it say that DynCorp had anything to do with the obtaining of children for sex. In fact, it says that "two Afghan police and nine other Afghans" were arrested for facilitating the use of the children.

The party was a Dyncorp function, apparently.

According to the leaked document, Atmar, the Afghani interior minister, was terrified this story would catch a reporter’s ear.

He urged the US State Department to shut down a reporter he heard was snooping around, and was horrified that a rumored videotape of the party might surface. He predicted that any story about the party would “endanger lives.” He said that his government had arrested two Afghan police and nine Afghan civilians on charges of “purchasing a service from a child” in connection with the party, but that he was worried about the image of their “foreign mentors,” by which he apparently meant DynCorp.

Another point that I'd like to point out is that we apparently have a bland admission that the State Department can and will censor the media.

Anyway, this also dovetails with this report...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm

On March 11th 2005, McKinney grilled Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal.

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"Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?"​

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They have been caught trafficking women and children all over the world.

So, we kill an afghan and create ten more enemies. Then, in order to quell the massive uprising, we decide to befriend as many as possible by helping them grow opium and throw bacha bazi parties. This is certainly something that they would do anyways, but we are getting involved in it as well. Is winning the hearts and minds worth this?

 

[billc]

The fact that the government still has contracts with a company this criminally careless goes to my point about the government not doing much right.

 

[Makalakumu]

The fact that the government still has contracts with a company this criminally careless goes to my point about the government not doing much right.

I agree with you there, Bill.

How can we ask the government to build a government for another group of people? Isn't that like asking a imbecile to build a skyscraper or a thief to guard a bank? Wouldn't it be better if we high tailed it out of there and allowed the Afghans the liberty of creating their own system? Perhaps we simply let it evolve without government interference and allow private interests to trade with the Afghans if both parties choose it?

The fact that our government has to get involved in activities that our citizens would consider morally repugnant, bolsters the point that you are making about the terrible price of government. When we grow government to the point where it involves itself in the affairs of people all across the world, we are forced to pay for all manner of pandering and machinations. And they STILL can't do the job better then if we simply let the people alone and organize themselves in the spirit of liberty.

No matter what you think of the Taliban, they banned bacha bazi. The price for pimping little boys was death and it didn't matter who you were.

This is the price we pay for thinking an outside government can solve all of Afghanistan's problems.

 

[billc]

If the taliban simply screwed up afghanistan I would agree with you. However, they allowed terrorists to use their country as a staging ground and would without doubt do the same thing once we leave. I don't think we have a choice with this fight. We either set up something centralized that will suppress terrorists or we have to stay there and do it ourselves. Neither option is good but that is what we have.

 

[Makalakumu]

If the taliban simply screwed up afghanistan I would agree with you. However, they allowed terrorists to use their country as a staging ground and would without doubt do the same thing once we leave. I don't think we have a choice with this fight. We either set up something centralized that will suppress terrorists or we have to stay there and do it ourselves. Neither option is good but that is what we have.

The problem with this analysis is that at every step of the way, the US intervened in Afghanistan. We built the various factions up while the Soviets where there and we actually CREATED Al Qaeda to act as a psuedogang in Afghan. Now, the term "Al Qaeda" has been broadened to mean whatever group is opposing the machinations of the big government empire. In essence, if you believe that everything you hear about the terrorists is true, then the best you can say is that we screwed up our foreign policy so bad that we created all of these problems for ourselves, IMO.

If we look at the other cables from wikileaks, however, what appears is a very different picture. Most of what we know about the "terrorists" is fake. We have all kinds of players playing intricate power games and labels are being stuck on them in order to market an image to psuedo-democratic consumer class who is desperate trying to distract themselves. Sitting here behind the computer in the US, I can say that if all one ever did was listen to the MSM regarding the war, then you probably don't know anything about what's going on. The image is almost completely controlled...which is why Wikileaks is such a big deal.

It all goes back to the enormous leviathan secret state that has built up in the so called land of the free. No body can tell up from down when official propaganda is able to be passed off as unbiased reporting. The cure is to pull back government everywhere, including the military. Let people live the way they want to live and organize their societies without the presence of outside force, weaponry, gunboat diplomacy, etc...

Even if 10% of the terrorists we hear about are real, what motivation do they have to come over here if we aren't over there messing in their lives? Does any rational being believe that they hate us for our freedoms? Ninja Please...

The bottom line is that this fascist empire is going to collapse under the weight of the State's ineptitude, but we have the chance to make it hard for ourselves or REALLY hard for ourselves. If you want to support the war, you'll have to support all of the other secret ****** things that the State does like pimp little boys and not to mention kill innocent people. We'll just create more terrorists and eventually catastrophically lose the Empire that so many others have tried to hold. Even if you oppose the war and support the State, you'll never stop it by holding a damned sign. Remember when two million people came out to stop the Iraq war in 2003? Look at how effective that was.

The only cure is to roll back the legalized monopoly on the use of force everywhere. If we let the oligarchs create this tool to use against us and everyone else, obscenity will be the only result. The State is the only thing that makes it possible for my labor to be confiscated in order to pimp little boys to stone Afghan cops.

If this is the result, zum toifel with the State.

 

[5-0 Kenpo]

The party was a Dyncorp function, apparently.

Another point that I'd like to point out is that we apparently have a bland admission that the State Department can and will censor the media.

Anyway, this also dovetails with this report...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm

With all due respect, because a politician asks a question, then it must be true?

Even according to the Chicago Tribune report, there were several anti-human smuggling groups that were opposed to parts of the legislation.

Once again, where is the evidence that DynCorp was involved in the incident described in the leaked document.

I always get suspicious when articles, in justification of their position say things like, "What else are we to assume..." Well, of course only right thinking people would believe as they believe.

They have been caught trafficking women and children all over the world.

Point me to some evidence, then I might believe you.

So, we kill an afghan and create ten more enemies. Then, in order to quell the massive uprising, we decide to befriend as many as possible by helping them grow opium and throw bacha bazi parties. This is certainly something that they would do anyways, but we are getting involved in it as well. Is winning the hearts and minds worth this?

Perhaps. But it is up to the politicians to weigh the pros and cons of doing so, as well as the American population to determine if this is what we want our elected officials to do.

 

[Makalakumu]

Once again, where is the evidence that DynCorp was involved in the incident described in the leaked document.

There is a videotape of the event that still could surface and set the record of what actually went on.

In DynCorps response, they claim there was only one boy, that he was 17, and that they thought he was just doing a cultural dance. When employees realized what was really happening, they shut the party down and arrested the policemen involved. The employees who planned the party were sacked.

How do we know if that story is true? How do we know if this is the only party they've thrown? There's a lot more to this story that could still come out.

I think the bigger picture of events like this is important to consider. What did we get ourselves into when we invaded Afghanistan?