U.S. trucking contracts funded Taliban, source says

[stevedeshazer]

Source: CNN.com

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A U.S. military task force has discovered that part of a $2.16 billion transportation contract was diverted through a murky network of subcontractors and into the hands of a group of Afghan power-brokers, criminals and Taliban insurgents, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

Roughly $600 million of the contract had been spent before authorities were alerted to the scandal, the source said, citing an internal report.

Only part of that money, however, is believed to have been diverted to "nefarious elements," the source added.

A Pentagon official told CNN the full $2.16 billion contract covered the movement and transportation of 70% of the material needed for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/afghanistan.us.funds.taliban/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

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more at link.

[Yon_Yonson]

1. Another example of black market war profiteering & piss poor oversight

The Taliban receiving $43 million from Prez Bush in 2001 and it took them this long to spend it so Prez Obama figured they need more to make sure they could continue fighting the coalition forces. :sarcasm:

[defendandprotect]

2. Who knows? It may have simply been the CIA's way of continuing to pay Taliban ...

[Yon_Yonson]

3. The Saigon Black Market

Back during the Vietnam War you could purchased ANYTHING & EVERYTHING on the Saigon Black Market. The military, CIA, South Vietnamese Government and DC was keeping the market flourishing, corruption personified.