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Group: Embassy guards abused

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 5:21 a.m.

Guards hired by the State Department to protect diplomats and staff at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan live and work in a Lord of the Flies environment in which they are subjected to hazing and other inappropriate behavior by supervisors, a government oversight group charged Tuesday.

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