Karzai May Compromise on Private Security
The New York Times reports:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan president asked Sunday for a list of national aid projects that needed protection by private security guards, signaling a possible compromise over the status of security companies in Afghanistan that would safeguard foreign aid projects worth billions of dollars.
President Hamid Karzai spent the day meeting with his ministers and top-level foreign diplomats as they tried to hammer out a compromise between his aim of banning private security companies by the end of the year and protecting foreign-financed aid projects threatened by insurgent attacks.
“The list of the big projects and their security needs should be given to the Afghan government and the Afghan government will assess and make a decision,” Mr. Karzai said in a statement. “These talks will continue.”
