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11/12/13, "More than $150MILLION in U.S. contracts with Afghan companies have gone to groups that back anti-American terrorist attacks," UK Daily Mail, By
Meghan Keneally
"A new investigation has revealed that
the U.S. government has paid more than $150million to groups that fund
terror attacks against American soldiers.
The
findings have been reported by the Pentagon itself as the Special
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction compiled a list of 43
such companies who are connected to Taliban leaders who have arranged
bombs and attacks on American targets....
The Haqqani Network may be lesser known of those three groups, but they are familiar to security experts.
The group has been blamed for the attack on the American embassy in Kabul in 2011 that left 16 people dead.
The
company is one of 43 such private companies that the government has
given contracts to, and although they have denied the connection to the
Haqqani Network, the Pentagon still listed them in the report.
Red tape and bureaucracy are keeping these contracts from being immediately pulled in light of the new revelations.
'The
reason they've given us is that it's not fair to these contractors that
the evidence that we've presented, and this is evidence collected by
the United States government, is classified,' said Special Inspector
General John Sopko.
'That's
the absurdity of it. We can probably attack them via drone on Monday and
we'll issue them a contract on Tuesday,' the told ABC News.
All told, the 43 contracts that have been highlighted by Mr Sopko's department's report total more than $150million.
'I am deeply troubled that the U.S.
military can pursue, attack, and even kill terrorists and their
supporters, but that some in the U.S. government believe we cannot
prevent these same people from receiving a government contract,' Mr
Sopko wrote in a report he submitted to Congress last July.
'I
feel such a position is not only legally wrong, it is contrary to good
public policy and contrary to our national security goals in
Afghanistan.'
Following
the report, the Army put out a statement saying that the companies have
not be awarded new contracts in light of the findings, but they did not
say anything about ending the contracts currently in place."...Lucianne
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