Investigation into security staff at US Embassy in Kabul

Описание: (3 Sep 2009)
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FILE: Kabul, Afghanistan - 18 December 2001
1. US embassy in Kabul
2. Two guards standing outside embassy ( NOTE: This is file video. Personnel shown here may not be those implicated in the hazing story)
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Washington DC - 02 September 2009
3. Danielle Brian, Executive Director of the Project on Government Oversight sitting at her desk
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Danielle Brian, Executive Director of the Project on Government Oversight:
"In addition to the interviews we've been able to conduct with the guards, many of whom are still there on the job and some who have recently left there, we were able to get photographs and some videos that were depicting what was going on in these bizarre, kind of "Lord of the Flies" (referring to 1954 cult novel by William Golding) parties that were really particularly disturbing because they involved supervisors who were bullying and humiliating essentially the new subordinates who were coming in to get them to engage in really deviant behaviour."
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FILE: Kabul, Afghanistan - 18 December 2001
5. US embassy, seen through barbed wire fencing
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Washington DC - 02 September 2009
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Danielle Brian, Executive Director of the Project on Government Oversight:
"Some of these people were so afraid of these supervisors that they were locking themselves in their rooms because it became, out of control, drunken hazing stuff. It's just unimaginable that this is the behaviour of the people who are guarding our embassy in a war zone."
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FILE: Near Ash Springs, Nevada - 14 May 2009
7. General Manager of the Wackenhut Services team in Nevada (blue shirt) shaking hands with employees during training session
( NOTE: This is file video. Personnel seen here may not be those implicated in hazing story)
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Washington DC - 02 September 2009
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Danielle Brian, Executive Director of the Project on Government Oversight:
"I think absolutely right away the State Department needs to be reaching out to the Department of Defence and saying, we need military supervision right away. We don't know if we're going to keep any contractors in the long term on this, but in the short term, we need to have, essentially some grown ups need to come in here and make sure that we have serious security."
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Washing DC - 02 September 2009
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9. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly walks to podium during briefing
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ian C. Kelly, US State Department spokesman:
"To be clear, there were some things going on in Kabul which we were not aware of, but frankly we should have been aware of."
11. Reporter asking question
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ian C. Kelly, US State Department spokesman:
"As I said before, we take these allegations extremely seriously. In fact, we've documented a number of management concerns through our ongoing oversight of this particular contract. There are a number of investigations that are under way, both here and out in Kabul. And we expect to see prompt and effective action taken as a result of these investigations, and we expect that there will be some changes."
13. Reporter asking question
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ian C. Kelly, US State Department spokesman:
"Given some of the information in the report about problems... of morale problems, this could have lead to problems further down the line, but in terms of providing adequate security, we believe that the security was not compromised."
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FILE: Near Ash Springs, Nevada - 14 May 2009
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