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Bill Shaw, Private defence contractor

Stephen Sackur interviews former British soldier Bill Shaw, whose private security job in Afghanistan went badly wrong. What does his story tell us about Afghanistan?

Conflict zones are lucrative territory for the private security industry - none more so than Afghanistan where tens of thousands of armed foreigners work in the protection business. Former British soldier Bill Shaw was one of them, but his private security job went badly wrong. He ended up imprisoned on bribery charges for four months before his conviction was overturned. What does his story say about Afghanistan and the privatisation of global security?

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