Afghan private security firms outlast deadline official

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Private armed security firms in Afghanistan are supposed to be a thing of the past.

President Hamid Karzai signed a decree in August 2010 giving them four months to hand over to a new government controlled security force.

But that deadline keeps getting pushed back, as Bernard Smith reports from Kabul, the capital.
Hamid Karzai
08/30/2012