Fund of the United States and supports the Taliban

 
Student Researchers: 
 ~ Anne Cozad (Sonoma State University)
 ~  Nolan Higdon (Diablo Valley College)
  Faculty Evaluators:
 ~ Mickey Huff (Diablo Valley College)
 ~  Peter Phillips (Sonoma State University) 


In a continuous flow of money, the money American taxpayers end up paying members of the Taliban and the financing of a volatile environment in Afghanistan. Private entrepreneurs pay the insurgents in the hope of reaching safety are very committed to provide. Meanwhile, American soldiers are charged at checkpoints operated by suspected rebels in order to obtain safe passage. In some cases, businesses run by former members of the Afghan Taliban, as the cousin of President Hamid Karzai to protect the passage of U.S. troops. Funding insurgents, with the voices of American helicopters to transport members of the Taliban in Afghanistan has led to widespread distrust of U.S. forces. Meanwhile, the dollar of U.S. taxpayer continues to fund the rebels to protect American troops so they can fight the insurgents.

Ahmad Popal rate is an excellent example of how those who controlled Afghanistan under the Taliban still control Afghanistan and now paid for by tax money from the United States. Popal, who served as interpreter at a press conference of the Taliban regime last year, greatly increasing his fortune in the U.S. war in Afghanistan. In 1988 he was charged with conspiracy to import heroin into the United States. He was released from prison in 1997. cousin is Popal Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Popal and his brother Rachid (who pleaded guilty in 1996 of a separate charge of heroin) in the control group in Afghanistan Watan, which is a consortium involved in different areas. Watan is one of the companies to protect convoys of trucks heading from Kabul to Kandahar, Afghanistan, carrying supplies Americans. Popal is an example of virtual carnival of unlikely characters and connections in the shade, with CIA agents and former former military officials in Afghanistan, joining hands with former members of Taliban mujahideen and raise funds for the government United States on behalf of the war effort.

security companies in the United States and countless other private American companies can not ensure the security they are paid to offer. Thus, American military contractors in Afghanistan suspected insurgents pay to protect the supply routes of the United States have been hired to protect. A war-torn country like Afghanistan has many poor citizens and, therefore, it is difficult for private companies to find people willing to take money to protect supply routes.

Thus, it is estimated that 10 percent of Pentagon contracts logistics of hundreds of millions of dollars are paid to the rebels, the government funds its U.S. forces fighting U.S. troops.

An example of these contracts are granted to NCL Holdings in Afghanistan led by Hamed Wardak, the young son of America Afghan Defence Minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak. NCL is a small company that has signed a contract to supply military hundreds of millions of dollars. Despite the fact that the company operates only in Afghanistan, Wardak NCL built in the U.S. in early 2007, because of its relationship there.

The Advisory Council is NCL Milton Bearden, a prominent former CIA officer who in 2009 was introduced by Senator John Kerry as "a legendary CIA officer and former lucid thinker and writer." Bearden is an incredible advantage for a construction company in the defense of small size. Wardak has been awarded a contract for trucking the host country, despite the apparent lack of experience in trucking. The contract is designed to handle most of the industry Trucking United States in Afghanistan, bringing supplies to remote outposts and bases throughout Afghanistan. Initially, the contract was small, but soon expanded to 600 percent, making it a huge contract a $ 360 million. NCL has found the golden door. These results, which relate to a selected and very well connected with the Afghan people build a lot of distrust on the part of Afghans and for U.S. troops those connected with them.

It is widespread in Afghanistan, insisting that U.S. forces are using helicopters to transport the Taliban fighters. The voice is strongly denied by the military. However, the voices heard helicopter in many parts of the forces fueling the distrust that are supposed to be put order in the country. Denying that the international troops supporting the insurgents. "This whole thing with helicopters is only a rumor," said Brigadier-General Juergen Setzer, recently appointed Force Commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in northern Afghanistan. "It has no basis in reality, according to our investigations." But persistent rumors of foreign helicopters were seen assisting the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, gave an unexpected boost in mid-October 2009 by President Karzai, who told the media that his administration was survey that reports like "unknown" carrying helicopters were rebels in the province of Helmand, the southern provinces of Baghlan, Kunduz and Samangan in the north.

       
  Update

On June 6, the New York Times reported that the House National Security Subcommittee, whose chair is John Tierney (D-MA), is holding hearings on this issue. In a March 2010 Washington Post article, Congressman Tierney cited the article in the Nation as the reason he began the investigation.

Since our initial search of corporate media coverage on this issue in February 2010, finding zero coverage at that time, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have covered part of the story on their front pages. Both mentioned President Hamid Karzai’s cousin, and both acknowledged that in all likelihood money is making its way to the Taliban. Neither paper mentioned the US connection, Milton Bearden. The Washington Post covered the story on March 29, 2010, and mentioned the Nation magazine article. The New York Times story came out on June 6, 2010, acknowledging the corruption, but included the news that President Obama was addressing the issue with President Karzai. That the two stories came out two months apart, and that the US links are left out, led to the decision at Project Censored to keep this important story in the top censored stories list for the year.

  Sources:

Aram Roston, “How the US Funds the Taliban,” Nation, November 20, 2009,http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston.

Ahmad Kawoosh, “Is the US Aiding the Taliban?” Taiwan News, October 31, 2009, opinion sec.,http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1095689&lang=eng_news&cate_img=140.jpg&cate_rss=news_Opinion.

Ahmad Kawoosh, “Helicopter Rumor Refuses to Die,” Institute for War and Peace Reporting, November 2, 2009, http://www.iwpr.net/?p=arr&s=f&o=356886.

Andrew Rice, “Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?” New York Times, November 16, 2009,http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22land-t.html