"a major financial firm suspected of helping the nation’s elite move millions of dollars overseas.... as much as $1 billion a year is flowing out as part of a massive cash exodus"
Yeah, never mind those refugee camps in Pakistan.
"Karzai officials accused of foiling graft inquiries" by Greg Miller and Ernesto Londono, Washington Post | July 5, 2010
WASHINGTON — Top officials in President Hamid Karzai’s government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to US officials who have provided Afghanistan’s authorities with wiretapping technology and other assistance in efforts to crack down on endemic graft.
In recent months, the US officials said, Afghan prosecutors and investigators have been ordered to cross names off case files, prevent senior officials from being placed under arrest, and disregard evidence against executives of a major financial firm suspected of helping the nation’s elite move millions of dollars overseas.
The Afghans are learning quite well, aren't they, Americans?
As a result, US advisers sent to Kabul by the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration have come to see Afghanistan’s corruption problem in increasingly stark terms.
Meanwhile, AmeriKa is AWASH in the SHIT and YOUR GOVERNMENT is OVER THERE, America!
I have an IDEA: NO MORE MONEY to AFGHANISTAN, how is that?
“Above a certain level, people are being very well protected,’’ said a senior US official involved in the investigations. The official, like others quoted in this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive investigations....
You know, like ISRAELI TRAITORS in AmeriKa!!!!!
See: The Israeli Spy Ring
Slow Saturday Special: Zionist Spies Set Free
Two more words for you, readers: Solomon Dwek
Yup, SIX MONTHS have gone by and I HAVEN'T SEEN ONE WRITTEN WORD of that trial!
Afghanistan is awash in international aid and regarded as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Indeed, even as the United States and its allies pour money in, US officials estimate that as much as $1 billion a year is flowing out as part of a massive cash exodus.
Good thing you DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING BETTER to do with that money, America.
The money, as first reported in the Post in February, is often carried out in full view of customs officials at Kabul’s airport, where such transfers are legal as long as they are declared. Officials suspect much of the cash is going to the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, where elite Afghans, including Karzai’s older brother, have villas.
Related: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Karzai's Kin
Oh, he is a CIA CONTACT for the TALIBAN and a DRUG-DEALER, huh?
Are you TIRED of the MSM S*** FOOLEYS like ME, readers?
For the Obama administration, the ability of Afghan investigators to crack down on corruption is crucial. If American voters see Karzai’s government as hopelessly corrupt, public support for the war could plunge.
Ummm, WaPo, it ALREADY HAS!
The people are SICK of the WARS and the LIES that KEEP COMING from the MSM!!!
Corruption also fuels the Taliban insurgency and complicates efforts to persuade ordinary Afghans to side with leaders in Kabul.
Afghanistan’s attorney general, Mohammed Ishaq Aloko, was viewed as a potential ally against corruption when he took the job two years ago. Some investigations have ended in convictions. But US officials said Aloko has repeatedly impeded prosecutions of suspects with political ties.
In meetings with US Justice Department officials, Aloko has seemed almost apologetic and acknowledged coming under pressure from Karzai as well as members of Parliament, officials said. On one occasion, according to a US official, Aloko told his American counterparts, “I’m doing this because that is what the president tells me I have to do.’’
That's odd, because our president does what Israel tells him to do.
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