Afghan Bombs Kills 10 Security Contractors

Local Police Say Twin Blasts Hit Convoy Of Security Guards Based With U.S. Troops

(AP)  A police official says 10 private security guards traveling in a convoy have been killed in two roadside bomb blasts in eastern Afghanistan.

Police chief Azizullah Wardak of Paktia province says Wednesday the convoy was hit by one roadside bomb that killed one security guard on Tuesday.

Wardak says a second blast then hit the convoy and killed nine other guards in Paktia's Chamkani district.

He says the guards were based with U.S. troops in the area. It was unclear what security company they were working for.

Militants have stepped up attacks across Afghanistan. President Barack Obama's administration has ordered 21,000 new U.S. troops to join the fight in a hope of reversing the Taliban gains.

[gromansky]

deliquescent: I guess you're not counting the 1,000 dead Taliban killed in Pakistan without the loss of a single US soldier or contractor? Or is that President Obama's fault, too?

[ajjaxtheleast]

This does change the impression of the worst that can
happen during a day's work in the life of a "contractor".


We better investigate to discover just what proposal they might
have been offering at the time to bring such an abrupt ending
to a contractural discussion or deal in the making,,,

,,,else how many young entrepreneurs will even consider
becoming a contractor?

[ajjaxtheleast]

Afghanistan terrorists are at a loss in effectivly completing the spector
of killing contracters

As soon as our tax dollars can finance the Afghanistan "government"
to putting up telephone poles terrorists will have at their disposal the
the necessary ambient physical items to finish off with the proper
manual proceedure for killing contracters by having somewhere
from which to hang their arrogant assses.

TEN count 'em TEN,,,,,,Iraq didn't kill ten contracters in eight years!!!

[babooph]

"Security contractor" is that what a propagandist calls a mercenary ?

[quapawsix]

Not to mention these contractors have loved ones and people who will miss them.
If you had been in my squad you would be walking point for the rest of you life dirt bag xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Well, it they were the former Blackwater employees that's no loss.
Posted by harpoot at 2:35 AM : Jun 3, 2009

[WayAround]

promaclaura wrote about harpoot: "Wow, you're a jerk!"

The best that I can write about you, promaclaura, is that you are a very deluded, misdirected person. (Something like a suicide bomber)

There's a war going on in the world right now. NOT coalition forces against Islamic terrorists. The war is truly GOOD versus EVIL. People who work for Xe knowingly commit acts of evil. Their deaths would make the world a better place.

[WayAround]

harpoot wrote: "Well, it they were the former Blackwater employees that's no loss."

Amen, harpoot!!!

My comment...

Please tell me they worked for Xe (formerly named Blackwater). Please. If yes, I will be a very happy man today.

[wyodutch]

Maybe the Afghans are getting tired of crap like this......
.
"In Afghanistan, problems with security contractors are hardly new. Their actions have attracted little media attention in the West but have sometimes outraged Afghans, as when, during the October 2004 Presidential campaign, one of President Karzai's DynCorps bodyguards slapped Afghanistan's minister of transport in the face. The action, a serious insult in Afghan culture, became for many Afghans as a symbol of foreign imperiousness.
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But while Afghans privately resent?and sometimes publicly denounce?security contractors, there has been no action against them. For years, several contractors have operated in Afghanistan with virtually no oversight or accountability. While foreign civilians operating in Afghanistan are generally subject to Afghan law and U.S. military personnel come under U.S. military jurisdiction, foreign security contractors fall into a legal gray area. Sometimes they are prosecuted in U.S. courts, as when a contractor working for the CIA in 2003 was convicted of misdemeanor assault for beating to death an Afghan detainee over the course of a two day interrogation (the lack of an autopsy prevented a murder charge). Other times there is no trial at all, as when a contractor with U.S. Protection and Investigations (USPI) was whisked out of the country after shooting and killing his interpreter in 2005. "

[tincup356]

Well, it they were the former Blackwater employees that's no loss.
Posted by harpoot at 2:35 AM : Jun 3, 2009

Wow, you're a jerk! Did you stop to consider that many contractors are VETERANS, yep they fought for your right to wish them dead. I'd take them any day over scum like you.
Posted by promaclaura at 4:11 AM : Jun 3, 2009 ,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,, They were contractors who were hired, not forced into taking those high risk , high reward jobs, being in a place where danger is a certainty. Being Veterans does not make anyone special in this situation...they CHOSE to be there, for profit, so if greed cost them their lives that is their problem.

[promaclaura]

Well, it they were the former Blackwater employees that's no loss.
Posted by harpoot at 2:35 AM : Jun 3, 2009

Wow, you're a jerk! Did you stop to consider that many contractors are VETERANS, yep they fought for your right to wish them dead. I'd take them any day over scum like you.

[sean58z]

Barack Obama should authorize use of bomb detection technology by Kabul. The super-secret equipment senses activation of mines and other booby traps. Felons have a difficult time deploying explosives when the Police know they are around. Satellites aid in the security checks on highways. Early warning may lead to the arrest of the culprits.

[harpoot]

Well, it they were the former Blackwater employees that's no loss.