'It's like the United States government is subsidizing the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, the Haqqani network' - U.S. Senator
November 13, 2013 by legitgov
'It's like the United States government is subsidizing the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, the Haqqani network' - U.S. Senator --Despite repeated warnings, US 'subsidizing' Afghan companies with ties to terrorism - report 12 Nov 2013 American taxpayers have unwittingly paid more than $150 million to companies throughout the Middle East that are known to have helped finance terrorist attacks on US soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, according to a new internal US government report. At least 43 companies based in Afghanistan were found to have ties to terrorist networks according to findings by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the leading US oversight authority on reconstruction in Afghanistan. SIGAR's report seems to suggest that the very groups being targeted by the US through counter-insurgency operations sometimes become the beneficiaries of the federal government through contracted work. "It's like the United states government is subsidizing the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, the Haqqani network, those groups that are trying to shoot and kill our soldiers," Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a member of the Senate's Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, told ABC News.
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