U.S. Taxpayers ‘Funding’ Afghan Corruption

U.S. Taxpayers 'Funding' Afghan Corruption

The American military pays the trucking companies to move its supplies across Afghanistan and leaves it up to the trucking companies to protect themselves. The trucking companies, in turn, pay warlords and local commanders to provide security. Several trucking companies supervisors told investigators that they believed the gunmen they hired to escort their convoys, bribed the Taliban not to attack. So the reports at the local security firms that trucking companies hire to protect them basically act as brokers between them and the insurgents. This largely undermines the security of other convoys that don’t pay. investigators say some NATO convoys came under attack after they refused to pay the warlords. unlike the Iraq War, in Afghanistan the vast majority of trucks are provided by Afghans. A difference that the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal has praised as promoting local entrepreneurialship. But now with this reports findings alleging those Afghan entrepreneurs actually feed the Taliban there may be a different reaction. This reports definitely criticizes the Pentagon for the lack of oversight…

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