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What happened to 360 m dollars it was lost to afghan crooks,insurgents so do we have to send 360 m more this is after they looked at and examined hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan the military estimates 360m in us tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led-coalition has spent nearly a decade battling the Taliban criminals and power brokers with ties to both the losses underscore the challenges the us and it's international partners face in over coming corruption in Afghanistan a central part of the Obama administration's strategy has been to award us financed contracts to afghan businesses to help improve quality of life and stoke the country's economy but until a special task force assembled by Gen David Petraeus began it's investigation last year the coalition had little visibility into the connections network many afghan companies and their vast network of subcontractors had with insurgents and criminals-groups military officials call malign actors process known reverse money laundering payments from the us pass through companies hired by the military for transportation,construction, power projects fuel and other services businesses and individuals with ties to the insurgency or criminals networks according to interviews and task force documents obtained by the ap funds begin as clean monies per document then through direct payments or through the flow of funds then gone through subcontractor network the monies then become tainted so what's everybody get from this?