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Embassy Guards Gone Wild: The Pictures (NSFW)
Warning: The pictures you are about to see are graphic—and may result in you swearing off vodka (and other varieties of hard liquor) permanently. The Project on Government Oversight provided me with a series of photographs—a dozen in all—that depict the bacchanalian goings on at Camp Sullivan, home to the ArmorGroup personnel who guard the nearby US embassy compound in Kabul. On Tuesday, POGO sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton detailing a host of explosive charges relating to ArmorGroup's management of the embassy contract, including evidence of "near-weekly deviant hazing and humiliation of subordinates." According to POGO, "witnesses report that the highest levels of AGNA management in Kabul are aware of and have personally observed—or even engaged in—these activities, but have done nothing to stop them."
As you'll see below, POGO really wasn't exaggerating when it spoke of the "Lord of the Flies environment." Here's the jaw-dropping proof:
The cover shot for a soon-to-be-released Contractors Gone Wild: The Asses of Afghanistan video?
Did these guys send away for coconut bikinis and grass skirts? I can imagine these items are readily available in a conservative Muslim country like Afghanistan.
Apparently this guy is urinating on himself, and smiling about it too.
And here's the infamous butt-shot shot—wrong on so many levels.
If you can stomach more—and I don't blame you if you've seen enough—you can find the rest of the photos here. So far ArmorGroup, North America's parent comany, Wackenhut, is declining to comment. Wise, perhaps, since I can't imagine there's a good way to spin this. Meanwhile, the State Department, which has harbored internal concerns about ArmorGroup's performance for years but still renewed its embassy contract this summer, says it is taking POGO's allegations very seriously. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters yesterday that the matter has been referred to the agency's inspector general. In the coming weeks, the agency is going to have some serious explaining to do. Not only concerning its contractor oversight, but about why a top State Department official told Congress in June that ArmorGroup's "performance on the ground...has been and is sound."
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What's up with that?
What's up with that? I want to know why there are blocks covering up certain part the these men's body on certain pictures. I say let America see it all with no covers on their faces or anywhere else! This is what your tax dollars has been paying for!
You just want to see some
You just want to see some man action, Tyrone. Don't be ashamed. Just be honest.
You call the savages men?
You call the savages men? They are garbage. Much less than animals, of course. Trash ..
Hey, there's a pattern.
I haven't seen any news source mention the killing by an intoxicated ArmourGroup guard (British subsidiary) in the Green Zone early in August. Looks like there's a pattern.
What are these guys going to do when they return home? I suspect a fair number will become cops.
So what?
These guys were having a party on their off-time and having fun. So what? I for one would rather hang out with these guys than all of the tight-asses expressing outrage at this.
For sure, "tight asses" are
For sure, "tight asses" are not their problem. Party on Anonymous.
Of course, leaving one of their parties armed, in Afghan dress (like the report documents) and wandering the streets of Kabul, is just "having fun" too.
It looks like these guys are
It looks like these guys are off duty; i dont think they can be drinking and being naked on duty at the embassy; the pics are taken somewhere else; that doesn't mean i am defending them at all; if they were abusing subordinates or Afganis; they should be subject to dismissal and termination and flown back to their respective countries right away; but whatever they were doing while they were off duty at a secured camp ( not in public ) i think is their own business ! Remember one thing people; these guys are security personel; that means they are absolutely nothing; they are not cops that are supposed be " the pillars of their communities " even when they are off duty; or military personel that are also required to have a code of conduct on or off duty; Our goverment tells us security officers that we are not law enforcement and that we are just another civilian that why when we say something to somebody they just send us to hell and end of the story !
lol
these guys are obviousely in teh closet....i dont even knw gay people that would do this in public in front of your , supposed, 'strait' bros....
Party On Guys
Where's the party dude? I haven't seen this type of debauchery since my party days in the late 70's and early 80's. No hookers, no problem. You make do with what you got...hehee
Yeah - it's harmless - till
Yeah - it's harmless - till they turn on you!!
I agree
tagged as:- solution
I say we take up a collection and have this woman sent over.. there.
1 out of 3 women are sexually assaulted in the armed forces, so you'll be in terrific company.. perhaps then you'll appreciate the tight-ass you once had.
You sir are other Gay or a
You sir are other Gay or a fucking hippy wanabe . No where do i participate in homosexual antics to let off steam or otherwise.
This is a extreme embarassment to the US, and shows how the socialism of Obamanation at work!
Bush got reemed because he let terrorists get water boarded so we could try and stop them from killing us and beheading our relatives.
But hey this is ok?
These men are just having
These men are just having fun on their own time. Who says that the moslems are the great moralists of the world anyway---the moslems! Of course, thats not counting when they are beheading people who convert to Christianity or oppressing their wives! By the way, when their away from their wives--as in the south of Spain, they are worse than this--prostitutes, drinking and all kinds of misbehaving. Don't take my word for it---go to Puerto Banus in Spain. Michael in Washington, D.C.
Pseudo-military types
Pseudo-military types engaging in overtly homo-erotic behavior fueled by alcohol. Gee, that never happens.
I lived near Camp Pendelton
I lived near Camp Pendelton for many years. We always heard a joke- what's the difference between a gay marine and a straight marine? A six pack. I can tell you sometimes it took less than that. Marines are hot!
Huh?
Not the kind of party I would like to attend but did they do anything wrong? I don't think it's against the law to embarass family and friends.
Double standards...
If Lt. Dan Choi get's discharged for being gay, why are these blatant homosexuals allowed to "protect" the embassy?
You're artificially
You're artificially implanted into a place where half the population resents your presence, you're guarding the most valuable terrorist target in Afghanistan, and you let your hair down on the weekends.
What's the big deal? Do we expect sane people to take these jobs?
BlueLew
Screw 'em
Damn right. Hey we're Americans! It's our world, what the f**k can they do about it?
to do or not to do
No need to do anything. U r crazy enough to suicide.
'will just stay out of that party.
sane people?
There you have a point. Are you realy geting it? Who could you recomend as reasonably sane all the way up in command chain?
Up to the White House and then down to the voting american people. I can´t imagine how it feels to live there, see these things and numbly writing all those comments listed under this article.
I wouldn't blame you if you drink a litle too. Shame nobody will seemingly care, over there.
(a foreign observer, anonymous of course to comment the model for Democracy. Ok if this is posted, but does it any difference if anybody over there is capable to realise it? )
Wait--where are the hookers?
Wait--where are the hookers? The article said hookers. I want to see the hookers!
You're lookin' at 'em - it's
You're lookin' at 'em - it's just that they have schlongs...
This is the product of all
This is the product of all those no-bid defense contracts from the Dumya-Vader Junta. This is to be expected from placing under qualified, ungodly over compensated civilians in a position intended to be staffed by adequately trained United States Marines. What we have is a PARTY OVER HERE!!! And, the tax payers are funding this useless ignorance, all while dickering over what should be discluded in an insuranced legislated public healthcare option.
Sending the Corp back to work in these jobs we're overpaying privateers to staff this poorly would certainly be a whole lot cheaper, and would free up some tax dollars for other worthwhile and much needed domestic programs. Programs like a UNIVERSAL COMPREHENSIVE SINGLE PAYER HEALTH PROGRAM WITH A PUBLIC OPTION NOT LEGISLATED BY THE BIG HEALTH-BIG PHARMA BEAST!
Photos
I'm an old lefty here. And I have to say that the pix above are No Big Deal. Looks like some loaded guys blowin' off some steam, possibly in a nasty war zone.
I can think of one or two more newsworthy items out there.
If that is the level of your
If that is the level of your mentality then you most likely belong with them.
William Murray
I've just spent a month in
I've just spent a month in America is and it is a biliously prissy puritanical self-deluding dogpile of bigots. Not many Americans have any perspective on what to be shocked by. The bog-standard frat-boy behaviour portrayed here is not different from anyone anywhere having a party. The shocking part is the self-importance and racism that goes with it.
Your perspective
Yea, what theyre doing is all good. Sure.
Its all a matter of perspective. If you and YOUR country have reached a level of immorality such that these photos are like child's play, well, I have to wonder what the next few generations will be like for you and yours. Perhaps you should look at home before pointing a judging finger at us. Oh, and if you dont like our country, well, youre certainly WELCOME to stay AWAY. In fact, yes, Please stay away.
I second your motion. The
I second your motion. The writer probably has never even been to the US. And my, doesn't he paint with a broad brush? Evidently, all 300 million of us are just alike. I'm sure no racism, sexism, or any other from of prejudice exists in his home country.
An you should also stay away
An you should also stay away from other countries and keep your deviant behaviours in America. You are not welcome to be anywhere in any other country.
away?
Stay away? Gladly.
But seriously, if its Democracy you stand for and you aply it domesticaly, you are colectively responsible of these facts and of the image you present of yourselves.
If there are other kinds of americans are they deaf, blind or spliffing?
And this is what we have
And this is what we have guarding our embassy and representing the US to the world. It just confirms the direction our nation is heading. Disgusting!?
William Murray
All I can say is, these
All I can say is, these fellows must be really bored in Afghanistan.
Hey, can I join the party???
Hey, can I join the party??? That one naked muscle dude is totally hot.
I don't get it
The article hints at plenty of things to be shocked and outraged by but does not deliver. I see a bunch of grown men acting like frat boys. Nobody's been teabagged or even sharpied.
Pics don't prove they were drinking alcohol, but if they were that's not a big deal. They're off duty civilians, therefore (probably) not subject to General Order 1B. When I was in Iraq most of the FOBs had the contractors in their own (fenced off) living areas where the booze flowed freely.
Yes, they look like idiots. Their company and the State Department ought to be embarrassed. But the pictures are nothing illegal.
By the way, coconut skirts and the like aren't hard to get over there. If you have internet (which they should in Kabul, embassy schmucks) go to Amazon.com and pony up the shipping cost. That's how we got a full flock of pink flamingos and a putting green going.
The US embassy
tagged as:- result
These guys make $ 120.000 each or more and the fighting soldier make about
$ 2500 to $ 3000.00 each .think about it & wonder why soldiers ask to get out
or refuse to return in order to join one of these companies !
Oh yeah. And the embassy in
Oh yeah. And the embassy in Iraq had a gay pride party/gala just this past June. So hooray for that.
From the comments so far, I
From the comments so far, I gather nobody's figured out that some of the men were forced to participate against their will, or at the very least were under severe duress (hazing). Sheesh.
I was going to add "severe
I was going to add "severe shame on Mother Jones for not specifying the allegations include hazing/duress/forced participation." But the MJ article above does mention this, at least briefly.
I guess, less severe shame on Mother Jones for titling the piece "Gone Wild" -- it seems to have incorrectly emphasized in readers' minds that these pictures show uncoerced voluntary behavior.
Interestingly enough, accused parties' faces etc are blocked out, but not the hazing victim's face in that last photo. That's a little weird to me and seems... insensitive?
In these pages, everyone
In these pages, everyone seems to be having a good time. And if the fellow in the last picture [with the blue lei around his neck] is the hazing "victim," then he looks awfully happy in other pictures.
What proof do we have that hazing occurred here? Or that men were forced to participate against their will? It will be interesting to see what investigations reveal, whether this was a hazing or just some gay boys having fun. But I can't help but wonder if a lot of the outrage is just homophobia.
gays gone wild
Who is that really good looking guy in the tennis cap?He has a future in homoerotic magazines etc. cant wait to see the rest of him.
gays gone wild
Who is that really good looking guy in the tennis cap? He certainly has a future in homoerotic magazines etc. I cant wait to see the rest of him.
WHY ALL THE ANGER AND
WHY ALL THE ANGER AND DISGUST ?
THIS IS A TRUE / FACTUAL DEPICTION OF AMERICANS & THEIR ASSOCIATES.
Da Nasty guys in the Photos!
Eugh, I didn't know what a "BUTT SHOT" was until now (can't they afford glasses). I feel like stabbing my eyes out with those tiny umbrellas..... eughhhhhh. I'm totally offended they are such ugly guys, or any guy doing this. Nasty. And" Butch in Waukegan" is right, how much you want to bet they return and get jobs as COPS! *shiver. You really should show their faces... this way us girls can be warned!
I'm outta here!
Don't you people
Don't you people have anything better to do than sit there and read all of the stupid commen........... uh never mind...PARTY ON MOTHER F...ERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the ones saying that
I think the ones saying that this is no big deal should realize that when you are in another country representing America you behave like you got some damn sense. Or at least do not take pictures of you acting like jackasses. Whether it was done on Embassy grounds or not these guys work for the US Embassy in Kabul and would you want these high paid idiot contrators taking your tax money licking each other asses while a Marine who is actually making peanuts getting shot at and being killed?
Ambassadors
Finally someone got it right. When we are outside of the U.S. we are ambassadors for our country. I have been an EXPAT for 10 years now and have never done anything remotely close to that. I am a military contractor and I have been deployed in 3 war zones since 2003. I was a manager on a contract in Qatar and one of my employees was threatening the guards in our compound and following women to the pool acting all stupid. I got him out of there as soon as I could. He even threatened me when he was drunk after he found out he was being fired. I think these guys should be detained, deported, and charged with felonies so they can never get another government job.
They are the true
They are the true ambassadors of the USA. They are the ambassadors of your true values, not the hypocrytical image you like to portray about the USA. This is the true USA.
This is not the true USA as
This is not the true USA as some of you would like to believe. These people will be dealt with wthin the confines of our society. They will not be abused or hanged, however. We do not greet abominations with abominations.
So, just when will they be
So, just when will they be dealt with... today? Next week, or maybe in February, as for abominations, what would you call the arial bombing of civilians, the use of cluster bombs and cruise missiles, and the use of depleted uranium, arrest without trial, summary executions using unmanned drones, and on and on.
Better that the Afghans use their own methods to deal with every last single one.
After all, it is their nation.