Afghan Leader Sees Plan to Ban Private Guards - nytimes

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.

President Karzai had been under pressure to bring private security companies under control, since a United States Congressional investigation and news reports have asserted that the private guards often behave recklessly and, in some cases, even bribe Taliban insurgents to allow supply convoys to pass unmolested. - Afghan Leader Sees Plan to Ban Private Guards

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