(WMR) -- WMR
has discovered from a private security company source who worked in Afghanistan
additional details about RA International, the Dubai-based contractor for whom
Terry Pearson, the British contractor who blew the whistle on lewd and
homosexual-oriented drunken orgies engaged in by security guards at
the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, worked until he was forced to resign or
face being fired.
Pearson was a supervisor in Afghanistan. He worked under a
sub-contract that RA International had at Camp Sullivan where the U.S. embassy
guards worked under a State Department contract awarded to ArmorGroup North
America, now owned by Wackenhut.
WMR�s source described RA International, for whom he once
worked, as a �total scam.� RA International�s chairman is Soraya Narfeldt, a
Lebanese citizen born to a Scottish father and a Lebanese/West African mother.
Narfeldt�s company has had contracts for UN peacekeeping operations in
Sierra Leone, Chad, Uganda, and Darfur, and, under a U.S. government
sub-contract from ArmorGroup, in Afghanistan. RA International is a
member of the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), the Washington
lobbyist group that represents a number of private military contractors,
including MPRI International, Dyncorp International, and Triple Canopy and
seeks to expand their presence in U.S. and UN military operations around the
world. Narfeldt�s husband is a former UN official stationed in Afghanistan and
she was named by Arabian Business Online 90th in its ranking
of the hundred most influential Arabs.
WMR was told by the ex-RA International employee that the
firm received sweetheart contracts with Dyncorp in Afghanistan, as well as the
British embassy, the German military missions, and other clients. The former
employee stated that RA International employees had French, German, and British
security contractors in Kabul who were usually under the influence of
prescription drugs and maintained a �hooker house� in Kabul.
As previously reported by WMR, press-ganged young Chinese
females serve as prostitutes in Kabul and, against their wishes, double as
Chinese intelligence agents. WMR has learned from our former RA International
source that a British senior RA International official in Kabul abused the
Chinese sex workers on a regular basis. WMR has also learned that RA
International routinely supplied weapons to its employees in Afghanistan
without the permission of the Afghan government, permitted routine drug use by
its employees, purchased food from local Afghan suppliers instead of
from parties already under contract, and failed to provide security for
personnel or provide secure vehicles for their use. The only security provided
was for food storage compounds.
Another senior RA International official in Kabul is known
to live in Kabul�s Light House brothel among Chinese prostitutes and is tied to
a number of local Afghan crime gangs. Some members of President Hamid Karzai�s
government have complained about the presence of the prostitutes in Kabul and
RA International�s involvement with them with no response from the United
States, Britain, or NATO.
The Department of State�s inspector general is reportedly
investigating ArmorGroup�s security guards and RA International claims to be
cooperating in that investigation.
Previously
published in the Wayne
Madsen Report.
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