Media Your Tax Dollars at Work in Afghanistan Supporting al-Qaeda

Samstwitch

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This is sickening and disgusting! Obama is paying American Taxpayer dollars to fund terrorists, and he's doing the same thing in Syria! :mad:



Pentagon Has Awarded Contracts To Al-Qaeda In Afghanistan

Obama is the global head of terrorist network

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Aug 1, 2013

A new independent report reveals that lucrative U.S. military contracts have been granted to militant groups in Afghanistan with direct connections to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

The report, submitted to Congress by the U.S. Army Suspension and Debarment Office, states that American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements with the extremists.

A Bloomberg article quotes John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, who notes:

“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,”

The report continues:
An audit showed that after 16 months, none of the agency’s essential program objectives have been reached and the money spent has mostly financed workshops and training sessions. The project is aimed at bolstering Afghanistan’s government before troop withdrawals planned for next year.
“It’s troubling that after 16 months, this program has not issued its first community grant,” Sopko said. “Rather, it has spent almost $50 million, about a quarter of the total program budget, on conferences, overhead and workshops.”
Regarding the 43 cases of contractors with militant connections, Sopko said the Army should “enforce the rule of common sense” in its suspension and debarment program.
“They may be enemies of the United States but that is not enough to keep them from getting government contracts,” according to the agency’s report.
So there you have it, while the Obama administration is funding, equipping, and training al Qaeda extremists in Syria to overthrow the Assad government, it is also awarding contracts to al Qaeda after a decade plus long war against “the terrorists” in Afghanistan.

Obama truly is the global head of Al Qaeda – bankrolling, arming and equipping terrorists around the world in order to achieve his administration’s geopolitical objectives – while simultaneously invoking the threat of terrorists domestically to destroy the bill of rights.
 

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Your Tax Dollars at Work in Afghanistan Supporting al-Qaeda

The next time Obama and the federal government tell you about the noble cause of our brave soldiers fighting on the side of freedom and democracy in Afghanistan, remember this: you’re not only paying for military action against terrorists (under the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists passed by Congress), but you’re also doling out money to the terrorists, viz al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Earlier this week, John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, complained about it. “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,” Sopko said in a letter accompanying a quarterly report to Congress.

“There appears to be a growing gap between the policy objectives of Washington and the reality of achieving them in Afghanistan, especially when the government must hire and oversee contractors to perform its mission,” Sopko added.

If we look at the history of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, we realize this “gap” is nothing of the sort. The phony war on terror is designed to go on indefinitely, or at least for a few generations, as Dick Cheney proclaimed back in 2004.

In March, the installed manager of occupied Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, voiced his frustration over the United States collaborating with the Taliban. Back in the day, when the equally phony Cold War was winding down, Ronald Reagan equated the Taliban with America’s founding fathers.

“These (Taliban) gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s Founding Fathers,” said the former actor said in 1985 as he introduced Mujahideen leaders on the White House lawn.

In 2011, a “year-long military-led investigation… concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation contract that the United States has funded in part to promote Afghan businesses,” the Washington Post reported.

“Senior Bush Administration officials had displayed a complete lack of interest in the Afghan opium problem ever since 9/11,” James Risen writes in State of War. “In fact, the White House and Pentagon went out of their way to avoid taking on the Afghan drug lords from the very outset of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.”

In addition, the corrupt Karzai family teamed up with the CIA to work the opium fields while U.S. soldiers protected opium cultivation, a fact underscored by a Fox News segment:



In addition to the CIA and the Pentagon providing sophisticated armaments to the Taliban during the engineered war against the Soviets in Afghanistan – shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles, delayed timing devices for tons of C-4 plastic explosives, wire-guided anti-tank missiles, extensive satellite reconnaissance data of Soviet targets, military intelligence, and a “ceaseless stream” of arms (see Phil Gasper, Afghanistan, the CIA, bin Laden, and the Taliban) – the group later known as al-Qaeda recruited, with the assistance of the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI, tens of thousands of “Afghan-Arab” fighters. Many of them would eventually end up in Guantánamo or on the receiving end of drone delivered Hellfire missiles.

This forbidden history is never mentioned by the corporate media when it “reports” on the “war on terror” and the tenacious presence of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, perennial enemies that will go on fighting (with U.S. taxpayer largess) for the indeterminable future.

The Pentagon, however, will get its chance to sidetrack John Sopko’s damning report. “The Pentagon is scheduled to deliver its own Afghanistan status report to Congress today. Its appraisal, which is months late, will outline progress from October 2012 through March and concerns that deal with handing over security operations to the Afghan military,” reports Bloomberg.

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