Top 6 Ways to Burn Taxpayers' Millions in Afghanistan

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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/top-ways-burn-taxpayers-millions-afghanistan/story?id=21378579

Top 6 Ways to Burn Taxpayers' Millions in Afghanistan


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Afghan Police Locked Out of Own $7.3M Facility

In Afghanistan's Kunduz province is a pristine multi-building facility built for $7.3 million for Afghan border police. Too bad the Afghans are locked out of several of the buildings and couldn't find the keys.

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$36M Command and Control Center Not Commanding or Controlling Anything

In Camp Leatherneck in the Hemland Province of Afghanistan there is a sprawling 64,000 square foot building, constructed for $36 million so far, that SIGAR said "apparently no one wanted or needed."

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$500M Aircraft Fleet, Planes Sitting on Tarmacs

Back in 2008 the Department of Defense spent $486.1 million to give the Afghan Air Force 20 C-27A aircraft and sustain the medium-sized transport planes. According to a SIGAR letter to the Department of Defense earlier this month, the aircraft are sitting lonely in air fields in Afghanistan and at the U.S. Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.

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$230M in Vehicle Spare Parts May Be Here, Maybe Not

It's not that the $230 million in spare vehicle parts don't exist or have gone missing, it's that no one has any idea where the taxpayer-bought parts might be and, therefore, didn't know when to stop ordering new ones. That was the conclusion SIGAR came to in a report released in October.


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