19649824? ago

It's Déjà Vu for DynCorp All Over Again | HuffPost

For an example of how just one transgression can lead to endless bad publicity consider the movie titled The Whistleblower that was released earlier this year. To summarize the plot, in Bosnia in 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.S. policewoman served as a U.N. peacekeeper. Her post was with the International Police Task Force which was arranged by DynCorp Aerospace. She was assigned to run the IPTF office that investigates sex trafficking, domestic abuse and sexual assault. She ultimately alleges that peacekeepers, U.N. workers and international police are visiting brothels and facilitating sex trafficking by forging documents and aiding the illegal transport of woman into Bosnia. DynCorp responds by firing Bolkovac, who returns to the U.S. and files a wrongful termination case. She wins the suit but says she’s still blacklisted.

Put bluntly, DynCorp was involved in a sex slavery scandal in Bosnia in 1999, with its employees accused of rape and the buying and selling of girls as young as 12. Dyncorp, hired to perform police duties for the UN and aircraft maintenance for the US Army, were implicated in prostituting the children, whereas the company’s Bosnia site supervisor filmed himself raping two women. A number of employees were transferred out of the country, but with no legal consequences for them.

This was one of two cases involving DynCorp and sexual scandal in Bosnia. The other, involved air plane mechanic Ben Johnston who sued DynCorp, alleging he was sacked because he had uncovered evidence that Dyncorp employees were involved in ‘sexual slavery. The negative impact of just those two cases cannot be overstated. Indeed, search online for “dyncorp AND sex scandal” as I just did and you get nearly nine thousand hits. DynCorp spent many years trying to move past the bad publicity resulting from these cases. And indeed, one can look forward to more on the subject when Ms. Bolkovac’s book on the incident is released this coming January. One could also note that, in a much less noticed case, in October 2004 it was revealed that DynCorp contract workers operating at Tolemaida Air Base in Colombia distributed a video in which they could be observed sexually violating underage girls from the town of Melgar. This video was even sold on the main streets of Bogotá. Nonetheless, the Lawyers’ Collective of Colombia has not learned of any criminal investigation undertaken in relation to these acts involving minors. According to follow-up work carried out by the Lawyers’ Collective it was discovered that one of the minors involved in the videos committed suicide some time after the publication of them. Now, courtesy of Wikileaks, DynCorp can look forward to a new round of ridicule and denunciations.

As first reported by the British Guardian newspaper, on June 24, 2009 the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan sent a cable to Washington, under the signature of Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, regarding a meeting between Assistant Chief of Mission Joseph Mussomeli and Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar. Among the issues discussed was what diplomats delicately called the “Kunduz DynCorp Problem.” Kunduz is a northern province of Afghanistan

The problem was this:

  1. In a May 2009 meeting interior minister Hanif Atmar expresses deep

    concerns that if lives could be in danger if news leaked that foreign police trainers working for US commercial contractor DynCorp hired “dancing boys” to perform for them.

As the ever zealous Ms. Sparky has already noted:

The tradition of Bacha Bazi “boy play” is alive and well in Afghanistan. Young boys are bought and sold, dressed up like women and forced to dance, at men only parties. Many times they are then raped or killed. ...

According to Wikipedia:

Bacha Bazi (translated from Persian: literally “playing with children”), also known as bacchá ‘ (from the Persian bacheh “child, young man, calf”) is a practice recognized as sexual slavery and child prostitution in which prepubescent children and adolescents are sold to wealthy or powerful men for entertainment and sexual activities. This business thrives in southern Afghanistan, where many men keep them as status symbols. Some of the individuals involved report being forced into sex. The authorities are barely attempting to crack down on the practice as “un-Islamic and immoral acts” but many doubt it would be effective since many of the men are powerful and well-armed former commanders.

For more on dancing boys see this PBS Frontline documentary “The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan,” broadcast last year.

Here are the relevant parts of the cable:

  1. (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Ambassador Mussomeli discussed a range of issues with Minister of Interior (MoI) Hanif Atmar on June 23. On the Kunduz Regional Training Center (RTC) DynCorp event of April 11 (reftel), Atmar reiterated his insistence that the U.S. try to quash any news article on the incident or circulation of a video connected with it. He continued to predict that publicity would “endanger lives.” He disclosed that he has arrested two Afghan police and nine other Afghans as part of an MoI investigation into Afghans who facilitated this crime of “purchasing a service from a child.” He pressed for CSTC-A [Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan] to be given full control over the police training program, including contractors. Mussomeli counseled that an overreaction by the Afghan goverment (GIRoA) would only increase chances for the greater publicity the MoI is trying to forestall.

KUNDUZ RTC DYNCORP UPDATE

  1. (C) On June 23, Assistant Ambassador Mussomeli met with MOI Minister Hanif Atmar on a number of issues, beginning with the April 11 Kunduz RTC DynCorp investigation. Amb Mussomeli opened that the incident deeply upset us and we took strong steps in response.

An investigation is on-going, disciplinary actions were taken against DynCorp leaders in Afghanistan, we are also aware of proposals for new procedures, such as stationing a military officer at RTCs, that have been introduced for consideration. (Note: Placing military officers to oversee contractor operations at RTCs is not legally possible under the currentDynCorp contract.) Beyond remedial actions taken, we still hope the matter will not be blown out of proportion, an outcome which would not be good for either the U.S. or Afghanistan. A widely-anticipated newspaper article on the Kunduz scandal has not appeared but, if there is too much noise that may prompt the journalist to publish.

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19649538? ago

A damning indictment of the Deep State's involvement, and an irrefutable piece of evidence that won't be easily 'explained away'.

19649146? ago

Ah, good old Dying Corp. Wondered then they would enter the story.

19648934? ago

Pic of other aircraft from Amazing Polly

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19648755? ago

I read something where Epstein's plane flew from John Glenn International Airport (CMH) to Palm Beach International (PBI).

John Glenn International (Columbus) is where NetJets is based. NetJets leases aircraft on a timeshare basis so it could be that those 4 entites are all timeshare leasing the same plane.

19649664? ago

You don't think those entities own their own places?

19649876? ago

Government leases a lot of stuff. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they lease through NetJets.

19649900? ago

Well according to the article, that's not what happened. The tail number was issued multiple times

19648727? ago

Once again George Webb hits the mark.

19647630? ago

...who remembers Bosnia?...What happens in Bosnia, stays in Bosnia?

19647265? ago

Wow...This is huge!!! ...And the plot thickens...

19646768? ago

Super haggard. If federal collusion evidence is presented in court we could begin to see the dismantling of the true government pedophilia ring

19647722? ago

Fishing shipments moving Alaska Russia Canada https://voat.co/v/AnonTalk/3324914

19646728? ago

This seems like kind of a big deal.

19646712? ago

If wondering who controls voa t just try to post this again to a non anon sub like theAwakening. You will get a cloudflare error

19649420? ago

If you post something really close to the truth, you Internet can mysteriously drop out just after the send button has been pressed.

This has happened on more that one occasion.....

19651331? ago

Me too

19652840? ago

Do you also get things like you brain is being clogged up and it's really hard to think like either an energy weapon or some sort of sorcery/black magic is being directed at you and when you don't post anything on the internet for a few days it stops happening????

19648379? ago

Maybe this is why the anon status was originally stipulated? Remember the hubub when it was made? No coincidences?

19647557? ago

Are you saying it's (((they)))?

19655542? ago

Yeah, they. Say it again, “they”. Oooooohhhh.

19646614? ago

This puts the Government Right In The Cross hairs.