A damning report into the role of private security companies in Afghanistan, including the multimillion-pound British ArmorGroup, was issued tonight by the US Senate armed services committee. Much of the focus of the report is on ArmorGroup's contract to provide security at an airbase. The report claims that the company hired Afghan warlords to provide security and that at least one was alleged to
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