Russia Today
August 17, 2011
A new report out of Washington estimates that around $360 million in US military money went into the hands of enemy insurgents in Afghanistan, including the Taliban.
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A special task force put together by General David Patraeus has estimated that more than a quarter of a billion dollars in US funds trickled into enemy hands while the American military attempted to support combatants and reconstruct war-torn Afghanistan towns. Through several faulty contracts, says the report, millions intended to be used for good instead found its way to the enemy and those with enemy-ties.
While the US spends billions in foreign contracts, the $360 million figure found by Patraeus’ task force comes as an alarming figure once it comes clear that the funding trickled from the US government all the way to the Taliban. Contracts also indirectly led to funding with “criminals and local power brokers” with ties to the Taliban as well, reports The Associated Press.
According to task force documents that the AP obtained, they report that US funding in Afghanistan begins as “clean monies,” but through “reverse money laundering” becomes tainted “either through direct payments or through the flow of funds in the subcontractor network.”
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