“We can confirm all four men have been released,” said Joe Gavaghan,
communications director for the Canadian firm.
Sources described Mr Davis and Mr Steele as healthy and said they were
expected to leave the country in the coming days.
Security firms provide guards and armed escorts for embassies, businesses, aid
agencies, military bases and foreign organisations in Afghanistan, but Hamid
Karzai has long railed against them.
Mr Karzai believes the firms, many of which are Afghan-run, undermine his own
security forces and risk becoming militias.
Kabul has decreed most firms must close and be replaced by a
government-created public protection force.
While embassies will escape the new rules, private aid companies have said the
move threatens billions of pounds in aid and may cause them to leave the
country altogether because they do not trust using government security.
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