{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"U.S. State Department pays Blackwater company thugs millions in Afghanistan while Afghan teachers starve","author_name":"Robert Maier","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article15777.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article15777.html'\u003EU.S. State Department pays Blackwater company thugs millions in Afghanistan while Afghan teachers starve\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn another example of the inanity of the U.S. State Department\u2019s work in Afghanistan, it was revealed several days ago that the U.S. State Department has awarded a $120 million contract for security operations to the United States Training Center (USTC) at  new U.S. Consulates in Mazar-i-Sharif and Heart.  The USTC is a division of Xe, the new name Blackwater USA chose to hide behind after its indictment  for  murdering seventeen Iraqi civilians in broad daylight on a busy Baghdad square. (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}