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Men in cropped hair, camouflage clothing and keffiyehs, packing guns, lounge in the Irish Bar, drinking bourbon with the Thai girls flown in to work at the hotel's new massage parlour...here are also claims that some are involved in heroin trafficking - in the country that produces three-quarters of the world supply - and smuggling antiquities...Some operating in this murky world do indeed have official connections. David Passaro, a former Green Beret who arrived on a CIA security contract, is under arrest, accused of beating a 28-year-old Afghan detainee to death.<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
The salt of the earth... |