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Archive Home > 2010 > August > 17 > Karzai seeks to bar security contractors

Karzai seeks to bar security contractors

Move part of president’s anti-corruption efforts

By Dexter Filkins and Scott Shane / The Bulletin
August 17, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai is planning to sign a decree this week ordering the disbanding of all private security forces by the end of the year, his spokesman said Monday.

There are at least 24,000 private armed guards in the country, some foreign but most Afghan, and there is....

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