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Security issues curb Afghanistan recruitment

By Jon Boone

Published: October 23 2008 01:32 | Last updated: October 23 2008 01:32

The swimming pool at one of Kabul’s favourite expatriate hangouts is normally dominated by journalists, aid workers and muscle-bound private security contractors, who have to check their handguns in at the door.

But on a recent hot summer’s weekend, the usual crowd of young, unattached danger junkies had their peace shattered by a dozen children, determined to make as much noise and displace as much water as possible.

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