British firm 'hired warlords close to Taliban to provide security'

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

[Scatterbrain]

The report claims that the company hired Afghan warlords to provide security and that at least one was alleged to have close ties to the Taliban./He was also scathing about the Pentagon giving US dollars to security firms to pay staff who then allegedly gave money to the Taliban to buy weapons for u

[Gomadintime]

"According to the report, the company referred to the warlords as Mr Pink and Mr White, characters in the 1992 Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs."