Senior US official Michael Furlong questioned over private security contractors
A senior American defence official is under investigation after boasting to colleagues that he had operated a maverick network of private security contractors to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
Michael Furlong allegedly told colleagues that his group of contractors in Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of them special forces…
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