Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan
By United States Senate Committee on Armed Services · Running time 6:04:36 · *Non-fiction, History, Political Science
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The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated by events in August 2008, when US forces bombed the Afghan village of Azizabad. This gave rise to a public dispute between the US Government and the United Nations about the level of fatalities caused by the attack and about whether those killed had been civilians or Taliban-linked insurgents. Allegations soon emerged that the attack had been based on false information deliberately fed to the US military by Afghan employees of ArmorGroup, a private security
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