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Ya han terminado las elecciones en Afganistán, y ya empieza Karzai a "matizar" eso de que iba a prohibir las PMCs :roll:
WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has clarified his decision to ban private security firms in Afghanistan, allowing those that operate from some fixed sites including power plants while still prohibiting roving convoy escorts, General David Petraeus said on Wednesday.

Petraeus, in a telephone interview as part of the Reuters Washington Summit, said Karzai's aim all along had been to get rid of convoy escort security companies that "frankly have at times turned ... certain roads into shooting galleries."

"They have become part of the problem instead part of the solution and that has really been his (Karzai's) focus all along," said Petraeus, the head of the U.S.-led NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Petraeus said Karzai is prepared to allow firms necessary to safeguard the Kabul city electrical generating station, for example, as well as other infrastructure sites and embassies. It was not clear when Karzai's guidance was issued.

Karzai issued a decree in mid-August giving private security contractors a four-month deadline to disband, saying their misuse of weapons had led to "horrific and tragic incidents."

When U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Kabul earlier this month, Karzai had said private firms could assist diplomatic missions and "other security concerns" but did not cite energy infrastructure, for example.

At the time of the announcement there were 52 licensed private security firms operating in Afghanistan, employing as many as 40,000 people, according to a U.S. Embassy official. There were many unlicensed security firms operating as well.

U.S. officials had acknowledged Karzai's concerns about private security firms but described the four-month deadline for their elimination as "challenging" because of the large numbers handling security for embassies, construction projects, checkpoints, critical infrastructure and other sites.

"There has been clarity," Petraeus said. "President Karzai gave guidance that private security companies at fixed sites ... can remain but those firms have to strictly abide by the Afghan law ... because there are companies that haven't registered, haven't followed the letter of the law."

He said private convoy escort firms would be disbanded.

"That's where the focus is ... to do away with those convoy escort firms and then obviously to replace them either with Afghan National Security Force elements and-or ISAF," Petraeus said. (For more on the Reuters Washington Summit, see [ID:nN17192992]) (Reporting by David Alexander and Phil Stewart; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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Al final Karzai empieza a cumplir su amenaza.
Primeras empresas de seguridad a las que el gobierno Afgano da puerta.

Afghan starts to close private security firms

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The eight companies include Xe Services — the North Carolina-based contractor formerly called Blackwater — Virginia-based NCL Holdings LLC, New Mexico-based Four Horsemen International and London-based Compass International, Omar said. Two large Afghan firms, White Eagle Security Services and Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, are also on the list. The remaining two companies are small operations with fewer than 100 employees, so he declined to name them.
La ONU apoya plenamente este movimiento del gobierno Afgano.
Luego será interesante ver quienes son los siguientes y ver quienes se quedan (y cómo se quedan)
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¿Loopster, sabes algo de esto?
Illegal security company banned in Herat
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Es Compass, una de las que ha mencionado blackjack y que si haces una búsqueda verás que he nombrado muchas veces en el tema de la "Misión FAS: Afganistán". 80% afganos y un bajo número de irlandeses, británicos, austriacos, rusos... y entre sus clientes demasiados gobernadores y ex-gobernadores provinciales (y sus milicias privadas, claro).

A Xe la han prohibido algo muy raro... protección de convoyes y transporte privado, y digo muy raro porque no hacen eso, los transportes privados y para ISAF los hace otra empresa que compró Aviation Worldwide Services hace unos meses, y Xe no se dedica a la protección de convoyes. Tienen el contrato WPS por el que se encargan de proporcionar equipos PSD, QRF y casi toda la seguridad a la embajada de Kabul y los consulados; entrenan al ANA, ANP y ABP; llevan un National Interdiction Unit; los contratos de XPG... pero no protegen convoyes para empresas ni nada similar.

Creo que se intenta apuntar un tanto diciendo que ha echado a Blackwater cuando sabe perfectamente que van a seguir allí.
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Por lo que cuentan los convoyes de Compass (80% afganos) son tan peligrosos como los propios talibanes.
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Loopster escribió: A Xe la han prohibido algo muy raro... protección de convoyes y transporte privado, y digo muy raro porque no hacen eso, los transportes privados y para ISAF los hace otra empresa que compró Aviation Worldwide Services hace unos meses, y Xe no se dedica a la protección de convoyes. Tienen el contrato WPS por el que se encargan de proporcionar equipos PSD, QRF y casi toda la seguridad a la embajada de Kabul y los consulados; entrenan al ANA, ANP y ABP; llevan un National Interdiction Unit; los contratos de XPG... pero no protegen convoyes para empresas ni nada similar.

Creo que se intenta apuntar un tanto diciendo que ha echado a Blackwater cuando sabe perfectamente que van a seguir allí.
Pues estás en lo cierto. A Xe (Blackwater) solo le han prohibido convoys (será algún socio local?)
Pero por lo demás se quedan, seguiran con embajadas, entrenamiento del ANA y policía.
No sólo no se van si no que además acaban de ganar otro contrato en una embajada (no se el pais) en Herat.
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"Echan" a Paravant, que es uno de los nombres-tapadera de Xe... el Karzai es un corrupto, no un idiota, si echa a los contratistas el país se viene abajo en 72 horas.

¿Embajada en Herat? Allí no hay embajadas ya que éstas están en Kabul, ¿no te referirás al consulado americano de Herat? si es así en el hilo de Blackwater/Xe tienes info desde hace muchos meses, incluyendo referencias a que viejo conocido del ET va a estar al de 75 tíos allí :twisted:
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Loopster escribió:
¿Embajada en Herat? Allí no hay embajadas ya que éstas están en Kabul, ¿no te referirás al consulado americano de Herat? si es así en el hilo de Blackwater/Xe tienes info desde hace muchos meses, incluyendo referencias a que viejo conocido del ET va a estar al de 75 tíos allí :twisted:
1-Consulado, no embajada (lost in translation :roll: )
2-Glups! :oops: Es cierto, se me paso que ya estaba allí :oops:
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Jajajaja, te podías haber ahorrado el glups, que el " :twisted: " no era por tí, sino porque el jefe del equipo en el consulado de Herat digamos que ya tuvo sus más y sus menos con un entonces Coronel del ET hace seis años :roll:
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Never mind the dead civilians. Forget about the stolen guns. Get over the murder arrests, the fraud allegations, and the accusations of guards pumping themselves up with steroids and cocaine. Through a “joint venture,” the notorious private-security firm Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 billion, Danger Room has learned.

Apparently, there is no misdeed so big that it can keep guns-for-hire from working for the government. And this is despite a 2008 campaign pledge from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ban the company from federal contracts.

Eight private security firms have won State’s giant Worldwide Protective Services contract, the big Foggy Bottom partnership to keep embassies and their inhabitants safe. Two of those firms are longtime State contract holders DynCorp and Triple Canopy. The others are newcomers to the big security contract: EOD Technology, SOC, Aegis Defense Services, Global Strategies Group, Torres International Services and International Development Solutions LLC.

Don’t see any of Blackwater’s myriad business names on there? That’s apparently by design.

Blackwater and the State Department tried their best to obscure their renewed relationship. As Danger Room reported Wednesday, Blackwater did not appear on the vendors’ list for Worldwide Protective Services. And the State Department confirms that the company, renamed Xe Services, didn’t actually submit its own independent bid.

Instead, they used a blandly named cut-out, “International Development Solutions,” to retain a toehold into State’s lucrative security business. No one who looks at the official announcement of the contract award would have any idea that firm is connected to Blackwater.

Blackwater’s “affiliate U.S. Training Center is part of International Development Solutions (IDS), a joint venture with Kaseman,” according to an official State Department statement to Danger Room. “This joint venture was determined by the Department’s source-selection authority to be eligible for award.”

Last year, a Blackwater subdivision, the Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, changed its name to U.S. Training Center. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-Michigan) blasted Blackwater in February for setting up shell companies in order to keep winning government security contracts despite its infamy.

According to State’s statement, the contracting process for the new Worldwide Protective Services deal included a “review” to ensure that companies met “minimum criteria” for eligibility. “This review included a process to determine whether any offerors had been suspended or debarred from the award of federal contracts,” it said. Despite Blackwater guards killing 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, killing two Afghan civilians on a Kabul road in 2009, and absconding with hundreds of unauthorized guns from a U.S. military weapons depot in Afghanistan using the name of a South Park character, federal contracting authorities have never suspended or debarred Blackwater.

It’s not yet clear what the U.S. Training Center–International Development Solutions–Kaseman “joint venture” will do for the State Department. Worldwide Protective Services is actually a bundle of contracts in one, each governing specific duties for a firm to handle in a given country. Only two of those component contracts have been awarded so far.

One of them is to guard the huge U.S. embassy in Baghdad. That’s gone to SOC, which has ousted Triple Canopy, the incumbent security provider (which will still be part of the overall Worldwide Protective Services deal). If SOC remains the contract holder in Baghdad for the full five years — there’s an annual review — it stands to make nearly $974 million.

But because that so-called “task order” is specifically for on-site security around the gates of the Baghdad embassy, it’s not clear if SOC will also provide the 6,000 to 7,000 security guards the State Department estimates it needs to protect diplomats on the move around Iraq or its other outposts around the country. Last year, the Iraqi government barred Blackwater from doing business in Iraq in response to Nisour Square. But it’s not clear whether this new “joint venture” is eligible to operate in Iraq.

The other task order issued under Worldwide Protective Services is to protect the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. That contract’s gone to EOD Technology, a global firm which has in the past guarded the British and Canadian embassies in the Afghan capital. And that means ArmorGroup North America — last seen with its guards taking tequila shots out of each others’ butts and engaging in extracurricular sex trafficking — has lost a contract worth nearly $274 million over five years.

According to a different statement from the Department of State, the new Worldwide Protective Services contract comes with new safeguards to prevent abuse. Those include mandatory cultural awareness training, the addition of interpreters on all protection missions, financial penalties for poor performance, and a formal ban on alcohol. (Yes — after years of alcohol-related contractor incidents.) Despite these new protections, the department still sees fit to continue business with the most infamous member of the private-security world.

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