Hiring trigger-happy heroin addicts as security guards
Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I don’t think hiring heroin addicts as security guards makes sense. Especially when they seem to open fire with little provocation. The district chief in Maywand, in southwestern Afghanistan, says that is what is happening. And American officers in the area agree that the guards are a problem, according to ...
Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I don’t think hiring heroin addicts as security guards makes sense. Especially when they seem to open fire with little provocation.
The district chief in Maywand, in southwestern Afghanistan, says that is what is happening. And American officers in the area agree that the guards are a problem, according to a fine article by Sean Naylor in the November 30 edition of Army Times.
“They’ll start firing at anything that’s moving, and they will injure or kill innocent Afghans, and they’ll destroy property,” Lt. Col. Jeff French, a battalion commander, told Naylor.
“We’re getting fairly consistent complains about them,” added Capt. Casey Thoreen, one of French’s company commanders. “Everybody knows somebody who’s been shot by the contractors.”
French has taken to pulling over convoys at gunpoint and taking their security chiefs in for questioning at his base.
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