US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops
What is going on here in Afghanistan is nothing new really. These are commercial kickbacks to an unfriendly foreign regime in order to do business in that nation? This is the business model of every country supplying weapons and munitions. Despite how egregious this is there is nothing "special" about the Taliban that doesn't apply more so to, say, the Israeli or the Saudi regimes? Despite the Trump administration's Operation Iron Tempest to end the $200 million (more likely over $1 billion) a year drug trade flowing out of Afghanistan by bombing drug production labs (any accounting how many were actually bombed?), that operation quietly came to an end. The likelihood of ending the drug trade out of Afghanistan is around zero, especially when Pakistan has a huge stake in that business as well. All these entities including NATO, the US CIA, PMCs, the British, the US military and Pakistan's ISI are all competing for plunder in Afghanistan.
Drugged Up Pakistan
The Real Drug Lords: A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade
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Source: OffGuardian
US Gov't stealing a significant part of its own "aid" to Afghanistan
Grigory Trofimchuk | July 10, 2020
Despite the statements of the US President D. Trump on the need for an early withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan, the interest of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the industrial complex in maintaining a military presence in this country is obvious. We are talking about the use of American financial aid flows to Afghanistan for selfish purposes.
For almost two decades of the Afghan campaign and the presence of the NATO and US contingent, Washington formally allocated large-scale funds not only for security assistance, but also for the civil reconstruction and development of this country.
Since 2001, approximately $130 billion was sent to Afghanistan. However, not all the money reached the country in need.
A significant part of the "aid" remained in the United States in the form of kickbacks, as evidenced, in particular, by the numerous reports of the US Inspector General for the Reconstruction of Afghanistan, J.Sopko. This is also confirmed by an article about US corruption in Afghanistan on the Turkish "Aydinlik".
As a result, corruption schemes for appropriating funds allocated to Afghanistan by the Americans themselves only worsened the already difficult economic situation in the country, which is trying to recover from military and political turmoil.
The question arises as to how those involved in the contract manage to retain a significant share of all tranches. The fact is that for the distribution of financial assistance to Afghanistan, there is a multi-level system of contracts, with the participation of American contractors and subcontractors.
To assign financial aid to Afghanistan, first of all, USAID is used, through which corrupt officials take about 50% of financial flows. For example, in the case of the program for the advancement of women in Badakhshan and Khost provinces, the share of appropriated funds reached 90-95%.
As a standard scheme, USAID transfers funds for the project to an Afghan agency that justifies its deliberately inflated cost to the local Ministry of Finance. After the contract is cashed out, half of this amount is given to USAID-related individuals. Grants from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are probably used in the same way, but in smaller amounts due to the greater number of witnesses in international organizations.
The very scale of American financial assistance, the feasibility of which is ambiguously assessed within the United States, also raises questions. In a report to the US Congress in February 2020, the above-mentioned J.Sopko noted that the amount of aid allocated significantly exceeds the capabilities of the Afghan economy.
According to the Inspector General, the amount of funds should be from 15 to 45% of the country's GDP, while in 2007 and 2010, US grants to Afghanistan amounted to more than 100% of Afghanistan's GDP. Obviously, such spending is not effective, but creates opportunities for plunder. At the same time, attempts by American politicians to reduce spending on Afghanistan are met with resistance from the military, who are interested in maintaining a significant source of income, as well as contractors involved in this area.
On March 23, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a $1 billion reduction in aid to Kabul due to the inability of two presidential contenders (A. Ghani and A. Abdul) to agree on power-sharing over highly questionable election dates. However, there is no confirmation that Washington is fulfilling the promises of the head of the Department of State. Recently, Democrat Senators even asked US Secretary of Defense M. Esper to report on cost reduction.
However, the report was not provided. Apparently, the Pentagon leaves this issue open, and the military clearly does not want to cut aid by reducing its articles.
The American defense industry has a special interest in the funds allocated to Afghanistan. Purchases and deliveries of goods to US and NATO contingents, as well as to Afghan security forces, are often carried out without regard to economic expediency and at inflated prices that are favorable to American manufacturers.
So, instead of building a factory in Afghanistan that would produce cartridges for M-4 and M-16 rifles at 12 cents apiece, Washington continues to buy cartridges from its suppliers for the needs of the Afghan security forces at the price of 57 cents apiece. In addition, the US military refused Russian kerosene at 94 cents per litre, buying it in Greece at $1.4 per litre. In order to maintain control, the United States provides financial assistance to the Afghan security forces through its own fund, not international structures.
American contractors on civil projects use the same principle with overstating the real cost of goods and services, including those supplied through USAID. For example, recently, not without their participation, the Ministry of Health of Afghanistan sold about 10,000 tests for coronavirus at a price of $48 each when their real cost is no more than $5.
The most "tasty" contracts are the supply of oil products and the supply of the Afghan army and the NATO contingent with weapons, military equipment and uniforms, which are lobbied by American congressmen whose wives get good positions on the boards of directors of the respective companies. At the same time, the real recipients of kickbacks are engaged in dirty work and are not "advertised".
Please go to OffGuardian to read the entire article.
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Source: Fort Russ
LAVROV: 'NATO Aircraft Are Used To Traffic Afghan Drugs'
By Drago Bosnic | July 11, 2020
MOSCOW – Russia insists that reports about the possible use of NATO aircraft to traffic drugs in Afghanistan be probed into, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
"We keep on receiving reports, including via mass media, that contraband of opiates has been organized from Afghanistan to other countries, including to Europe, with the use of military aircraft of the NATO coalition," he stated during the Primakov Readings international online forum, TASS reported.According to the Russian top diplomat, the investigation is also needed inside the country of NATO presence.
"We cannot verify these reports 100% but such reports are coming too regularly to be ignored. If military aircraft were used over Afghanistan, they could have been only NATO's aircraft and such flights could have been performed only by the military or special services. Naturally, such information needs to be probed into, first of all in the United States," Lavrov stressed.
"Looking at absolutely reliable facts, we can say that over the 20 years of the US' and the coalition's other participants' presence in Afghanistan, drug trafficking from that country has increased many-fold. Neither the United States nor other members of the coalition have taken any serious efforts to stop drug production in Afghanistan," Lavrov added._________
Related:
Almost 50% of US Aid to Afghanistan Goes to Corruption, Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Let's have a look at how the Brookings Institute wonks spin this:
Afghanistan's opium production is through the roof—why Washington shouldn't overreact
This isn't the first time the US military, the CIA and private contractors have been involved in the drug trade:
Executive Producer of Sabow Documentary: Sabow's Phantom Wingman Joins The Fray In Canton, South Dakota in September - USMC Col. James Sabow's Phantom Wingman - Canton-Canton-Canton OODA Loop "Flyby"- The Sabow 3 Hearse and the 'Sweet Talkin' Woman'
Commodity Backing US$: Drugs - The "War on Drugs" Continues - USMC Cocaine Delivery Services via US Military Aircraft - The Fourth Reich Embedded Deeply in America's Military - The New Semper Fi Code: Marine Colonel James Sabow Ambushed In His Backyard by IRT Team - Estimated Global Trade in Cocaine: US$88 Billion - Need Help Defending That Trade? - Call the Marines
Continued: Monopoly on Weapons (Munitions), Drugs and Sex Trade - United States Government/Military Contracting Out Transshipment of Drugs - Two Americans Lose Their Lives: James Sabow and Gary Webb - The Secret Team: Enforces The "National Security State" - America Imports 50% of World-Wide Cocaine Production - Interfere With This Operation and Meet a Certain Death
Project Salus is a massive tracking program launched by the Pentagon (the b*tch of Babylon) using artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and a bunch of other tech the average person has no idea even exists. With it, they say they'll be able to predict COVID hot spots (so can we; just look at nursing homes), supply chain problems and other logistics issues. These systems already have geolocation data that allow them to do mapping, resource allocation, etc.
Solution: Finally, readers are now wondering what is going on within the US military that the Pentagon is behind the drug trade and extending these corporate wars like what we are seeing in Afghanistan. We implore readers to listen to this discussion on why the US military is conducting international trade and business as a private corporation under a US government that is acting illegitimately. All the crimes being committed by the US military are made possible by the military jurisdiction created within the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). This was a military coup and is where all the crimes being perpetrated on the American people are operating in RICO and criminal conspiracy to defraud the patent of the US Treasury.
This is why the military has come out saying they are going to "fix it all" and that is because they know they are liable. The US military has violated the Lieber Code and now they must be held accountable. Unless the present military coup is not reversed, certain members of the US military will be tried for treason and sedition for their crimes against the United States, against America and various other nations. The US military has assisted in the trafficking of children and women and is involved in the drug trade like we see in Afghanistan under the auspices of "doing war with them." They are making money off people as a commodity.
Under this corporate statute law template, all the US soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan and who will continue to get killed there, are simply expendable product (denied equity). The cost of doing business. Let this be a warning: If you are in the military or are considering volunteering as "private" property, your altruistic ambitions, loyalty to America, patriotism, sense of duty or whatever concept you buy into to join the military means absolutely nothing to the drug cartels, the CIA, the upper echelons of the US military and their private corporate law merchants.
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