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    MERCENARIES are being used to gather intelligence in Afghanistan in a creeping privatisation of the war against the Taliban.Private security firms used to offer bodyguards and police training, but Hereford-based Minimal Risk has now been contracted to take over intelligence work normally done by regular troops.

    Six security firms have earned more than £240million in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past five years and costs are rising as the MoD spent just £15million on private security in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2006.

    Ruth Turner, of charity War on Want, said: "Britain has increasingly come to rely on private military firms."Yet ministers have left firms like these unaccountable for hundreds of human rights violations."This emerged as David Cameron was forced to look again at his unpopular plans to cut defence budgets.

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