The corruption of the Karzai regime is disgusting. Clearly the Taliban has it infiltrated. While our soldiers die to prop them up, they have double dealings with the enemy. Afghan trucking companies with ties to the Karzai regime have the contracts to supply our troops. Some of the money from those contracts have been funneled to the Taliban.
A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation contract that the United States has funded in part to promote Afghan businesses.
The unreleased investigation provides seemingly definitive evidence that corruption puts U.S. transportation money into enemy hands, a finding consistent with previous inquiries carried out by Congress, other federal agencies and the military. Yet U.S. and Afghan efforts to address the problem have been slow and ineffective, and all eight of the trucking firms involved in the work remain on U.S. payroll. In March, the Pentagon extended the contract for six months.
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The trucking subcontractors then made deposits into an Afghan National Police commander’s account, already swollen with payments from other subcontractors, in exchange for guarantees of safe passage for the convoys. Intelligence officials traced $3.3 million, withdrawn in 27 transactions from the commander’s account, that was transferred to insurgents in the form of weapons, explosives and cash.
This is despicable!
(Hat Tip: Guggi)
Tags: Afghan War, Corruption, Karzai Regime
