Investigation Reveals US Taxpayer Money Went To Taliban

July 26, 2011 by Marcy Bonebright


U.S. Army soldiers from the Bravo Battery of the Automatic Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment fire at suspected enemy movement

An unreleased, military-led investigation found that United States funds, provided in part to promote Afghan businesses, were actually directed to the Taliban. The funds were provided under a $2.16 billion transportation contract.

“Yet U.S. and Afghan efforts to address the problem have been slow and ineffective, and all eight of the trucking firms involved in the work remain on U.S. payroll,â€