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By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Feb. 23) -- Weapons signed out by a character from "South Park," a dangerous joyride with AK-47s and hundreds of missing weapons that had been intended to help equip Afghan security forces. It sounds like a cartoon parody of war, but these are just a few of the problems the Senate Armed Services Committee said it found during a six-month investigation into Xe Services, better known by its former name, Blackwater Worldwide. The investigation's findings are set to be the subject of a Senate hearing Wednesday, but panel Chairman Carl Levin previewed some of the allegations today. The Michigan ...
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By David Wood - Politics DailyCOMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Eastern Afghanistan -- Just about the time the laughter here was dying down, U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Jack Reed were touching down in Kabul for a whirlwind, suit-and-tie "fact-finding'' tour of the war zone. That was hundreds of miles from this remote U.S. Army base, home to a small, well-armed contingent of soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment COP Zormat that was under the onslaught of a slashing evening rainstorm. Turret gunners on the gun trucks returning from patrol were soaked and shivering. The rain beat against the plywood walls of the ...
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