If homosexuality is wrong,

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DynCorp disputes WikiLeaks allegations

A salacious, scandalous story involving allegations of child sex that has unfolded on blogs and websites over the last two weeks seems to implicate DynCorp International, a major Fort Worth employer.

The problem, say both DynCorp and the U.S. State Department, is that the story is exaggerated and the worst parts of it untrue.

The recent release of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks prompted the reports. Among the cables is one that discusses a meeting with Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar, who wanted the U.S. to help quash a possible newspaper article about foreign employees of DynCorp hiring "dancing boys" to perform at a party.

Britain's Guardian newspaper published an article Dec. 2 about the memo and the minister's meeting with embassy officials. The article tied the reported party to "a long [Afghan] tradition of young boys dressing up as girls and dancing for men ... that sometimes crosses the line into child abuse with Afghans keeping the boys as possessions."

From there, several websites caught on to the story.

"U.S. Contractor Threw 'Dancing Boys' Party for Afghan Police," was Slate's headline. The Houston Press, prominently pointing out DynCorp's operations in Fort Worth, wrote: "Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys to Stoned Afghan Cops."

It's not the first time DynCorp employees overseas have been linked to a sex scandal.

"It's Deja Vu for DynCorp All Over Again," headlined The Huffington Post, referring to a scandal in the late '90s. DynCorp employees in Bosnia were accused of being involved in prostitution and procuring young girls for sex.

In the Afghanistan case, both DynCorp and the State Department say what occurred was far less sinister than portrayed in such reports.

According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at ... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."

Shortly after the dancing began, a DynCorp manager "recognizing that the situation was culturally insensitive ... stopped the performance," according to the statement.

The company conducted its own investigation of the matter, "determined that the leadership of the team exhibited poor judgment and were subsequently terminated. That is the whole story; no alcohol or drugs were involved, or other illegal behaviors occurred."

The State Department concurred, saying there were no drugs, no alcohol and no boys procured for sex.

"There was no evidence of any of that," said Susan Pittman, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.

Both the bureau and the Office of the Inspector General investigated the matter, Pittman said, including reviewing videos of the party.

For several days after the leaked memo was published, DynCorp's Burke said, none of the online media writing about it bothered to contact the company or the State Department. Eventually, one blog, TalkingPointsMemo, did and reported the company and State Department side of the story.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/12...legations.html


Another homo story shot down in flames.

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DynCorp disputes WikiLeaks allegations

A salacious, scandalous story involving allegations of child sex that has unfolded on blogs and websites over the last two weeks seems to implicate DynCorp International, a major Fort Worth employer.

The problem, say both DynCorp and the U.S. State Department, is that the story is exaggerated and the worst parts of it untrue.

The recent release of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks prompted the reports. Among the cables is one that discusses a meeting with Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar, who wanted the U.S. to help quash a possible newspaper article about foreign employees of DynCorp hiring "dancing boys" to perform at a party.

Britain's Guardian newspaper published an article Dec. 2 about the memo and the minister's meeting with embassy officials. The article tied the reported party to "a long [Afghan] tradition of young boys dressing up as girls and dancing for men ... that sometimes crosses the line into child abuse with Afghans keeping the boys as possessions."

From there, several websites caught on to the story.

"U.S. Contractor Threw 'Dancing Boys' Party for Afghan Police," was Slate's headline. The Houston Press, prominently pointing out DynCorp's operations in Fort Worth, wrote: "Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys to Stoned Afghan Cops."

It's not the first time DynCorp employees overseas have been linked to a sex scandal.

"It's Deja Vu for DynCorp All Over Again," headlined The Huffington Post, referring to a scandal in the late '90s. DynCorp employees in Bosnia were accused of being involved in prostitution and procuring young girls for sex.

In the Afghanistan case, both DynCorp and the State Department say what occurred was far less sinister than portrayed in such reports.

According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at ... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."

Shortly after the dancing began, a DynCorp manager "recognizing that the situation was culturally insensitive ... stopped the performance," according to the statement.

The company conducted its own investigation of the matter, "determined that the leadership of the team exhibited poor judgment and were subsequently terminated. That is the whole story; no alcohol or drugs were involved, or other illegal behaviors occurred."

The State Department concurred, saying there were no drugs, no alcohol and no boys procured for sex.

"There was no evidence of any of that," said Susan Pittman, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.

Both the bureau and the Office of the Inspector General investigated the matter, Pittman said, including reviewing videos of the party.

For several days after the leaked memo was published, DynCorp's Burke said, none of the online media writing about it bothered to contact the company or the State Department. Eventually, one blog, TalkingPointsMemo, did and reported the company and State Department side of the story.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/12...legations.html


Another homo story shot down in flames.

So because the perpetrators deny it, it's not true?

Then why is the government mulling charges against Julian Assange?

[NOVA]

So because the perpetrators deny it, it's not true?

And yet when Julie claims the US is behind his sex crime accusations you have no problem saying the US is persecuting him
Julies claims mean its the truth?....Odd....



Then why is the government mulling charges against Julian Assange?

Because a crime has been committed....he is in possession of stolen goods....ie, a crime.

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Possession of stolen goods?

Do you have a source for that amazing piece of judicial information?

[Minister of Truth]

So because the perpetrators deny it, it's not true?

Then why is the government mulling charges against Julian Assange?

Wouldn't they be mulling over charges regardless of any specific document coming to light?

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(Excerpt from article) According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at ... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."

I remember my brother sent a strip-a-gram as a birthday present to my place of employment. The boss was out at the time and upon returning and learning what happened came charging into the plant. I was told in no uncertain terms that should such a spectacle occur in the future he wanted to be notified so he wouldn't miss it!

[midcan5]

This is just another issue and problem when government is contracted out. Contractors care not for human rights or even human decency, they are all about making money. When profit guides your behavior your reputation matters only to the flunkies in Washington who hope one day to be on your board so they too can rape and pillage. This is where the republicans have been leading the nation since Reagan.


"Democracies have great rational and imaginative powers. They also are prone to some serious flaws in reasoning, to parochialism, haste, sloppiness, selfishness, narrowness of the spirit. Education based mainly on profitability in the global market magnifies these deficiencies, producing a greedy obtuseness and a technically trained docility that threaten the very life of democracy itself, and that certainly impede the creation of a decent world culture." Martha Nussbaum

[Mister Wonderful]

This is just another issue and problem when government is contracted out. Contractors care not for human rights or even human decency, they are all about making money. When profit guides your behavior your reputation matters only to the flunkies in Washington who hope one day to be on your board so they too can rape and pillage. This is where the republicans have been leading the nation since Reagan.


"Democracies have great rational and imaginative powers. They also are prone to some serious flaws in reasoning, to parochialism, haste, sloppiness, selfishness, narrowness of the spirit. Education based mainly on profitability in the global market magnifies these deficiencies, producing a greedy obtuseness and a technically trained docility that threaten the very life of democracy itself, and that certainly impede the creation of a decent world culture." Martha Nussbaum

Documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act describe previously undisclosed offenses committed by more than 200 contract employees of the State Department in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries between 2004 and 2008.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121901240.html

At two in the morning on Sept. 9, 2005, five DynCorp International security guards assigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's protective detail returned to their compound drunk, with a prostitute in tow. Less than a week later, three of these same guards got drunk again, this time in the VIP lounge of the Kabul airport while awaiting a flight to Thailand.

"They had been intoxicated, loud and obnoxious," according to an internal company report of the incident, which noted that Afghanistan's deputy director for elections and a foreign diplomat were also in the lounge. "Complaints were made regarding the situation." DynCorp fired the three guards.

Such episodes represent the headaches that U.S. contractors can cause in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. They are indispensable to the State Department's mission overseas, handling security, transportation, construction, food service and more. But when hired hands behave badly — or break the law — they cast a cloud over the American presence.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...8d7c4885ec41a9


Hanif Atmar, the Afghan interior minister, rushed over to the United States embassy and demanded diplomats there quash an article — unaware, it seemed, of the concept of a free press.

The topic: DynCorp International, an American contractor, had asked Afghan police to “purchase a service from a child,” as a State Department cable made public by WikiLeaks described it. The idea was to stage a “dancing boys” party for DynCorp workers.

Dancing boys is a prettified moniker for a sordid, culturally sanctioned Afghan practice more accurately characterized as pedophilia.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/17...#ixzz18aYpkAhT