http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101008/ap_on_bi_ge/us_us_afghanistan_contractors;_ylt=AsjWKMXUdBDhcejYHCoIp4SWwvIE;_ylu=X3oDMTNxbXZkdDJ2BGFzc2V0Ay9zL2FwLzIwMTAxMDA4L2FwX29uX2JpX2dlL3VzX3VzX2FmZ2hhbmlzdGFuX2NvbnRyYWN0b3JzBGNjb2RlA2dtcHIEY3BvcwMyBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDc2VuYXRlcmVwb3J0
Lol shut off the spigot of cash to the warlords that the mercenaries high.
Lets just shut off the mercenaries.
Afghanistan is kicking them out by the end of the year any way.
Where are "WE" gonna stick them next Pakistan?
It would seem we've extended the boundaries of the war again.
It just keep marching right along.
Kind of just like Germany did in world war II
Heavy U.S. reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban and threatens the safety of coalition troops because contractors often don't vet local recruits and wind up hiring warlords and thugs, Senate investigators said Thursday.
The report by the Senate Armed Services Committee follows a separate congressional inquiry in June that concluded that trucking contractors pay tens of millions of dollars a year to local warlords for convoy protection.
Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate panel, said he is worried the U.S. is unknowingly fostering the growth of Taliban-linked militias and endanger U.S. and coalition troops at a time when Kabul is struggling to recruit its own soldiers and police officers.
"Almost all are Afghans. Almost all are armed," Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said of the army of young men working under U.S. contracts.
"These contractors threaten the security of our troops and risk the success of our mission," he told reporters. "There is significant evidence that some security contractors even work against our coalition forces, creating the very threat that they are hired to combat
