Taliban benefiting from funds sent to Afghanistan from the US and from other donors
Every two weeks, approximately $80 million in aid pours into Afghanistan. This aid is intended to support humanitarian purposes. One of the caveats to this humanitarian aid is that the Taliban are not among the beneficiaries. However, the Taliban leverages its control to obtain information from aid groups and to funnel money into their coffers. One tactic that they use involves phony nonprofit organizations intended to receive funds. The Washington Free Beacon article also states that Team Biden is in talks with the Taliban that could lead to the United States officially recognizing the Taliban government.
From The Washington Free Beacon:
The United Nations sends “cash shipments” to Afghanistan every 10 to 14 days, money that is supposed to be shielded from the Taliban, according to the latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Biden administration has allocated more than $2.5 billion for humanitarian projects in Afghanistan since its 2020 evacuation from the country, and international donors provided billions more for the country.
While the State Department has provided assurances this aid is not enriching the Taliban, SIGAR reports that the terror group’s “interference into UN and NGO activities has continued to rise throughout 2023.” This interference includes arresting aid workers and demanding that “sensitive data” about various projects be turned over to Taliban officials. The terror group also “indirectly benefit[s] from U.S. education funding through the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor assistance, and by infiltrating and extorting existing Afghan NGOs delivering educational assistance,” according to SIGAR’s summary of its report.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which remains active in the war-torn country, also said that “agency-funded projects were affected by Taliban interference” in recent months, according to the SIGAR report. But the Taliban’s meddling in international aid projects has not stopped the United States and other Western nations from pumping money into Afghanistan, generating concerns the terror group is enriching itself while the nation starves.
USAID reported that “some of their partner staff members had been detained this quarter by local Taliban authorities because of the staff members’ efforts to prevent the diversion of aid to non-eligible individuals,” according to SIGAR.
Truth? Or fiction? The Washington Free Beacon has the rest of the details, and the link to the report, here.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Afghanistan, Biden, International Affairs, Taliban, YGBSM!!
Each day as I cull thru numerous news feeds on the search for FGS and other articles of interest I look for info on Countries that tax their citizens to send aid to the USA. Alas, that search is as bare as SFC D’s unplanted field.
A’stan…not only the Grave of Empires but also the death of bank accounts. At least we’re only spending mere billions of USD there now instead of 100s of billions of USD, so there is that.
Our glorious ruling class thinks money comes out of thin air, in a computer. They have been right so far. So far.
This is my shocked face.
Terrorists need love too.
The Taliban should have a garage sale of all that US equipment left behind.
I wouldn’t mind a gently used M4, dropped only once, and a MRAP for a garage sale price.
I’m sure it’s already being sold, most likely by design by those we “elected”.
If you were in Israel right now your local congressman would hand you one. At least that is what they were doing at photo ops until Blinken made em stop. I don’t think they want people in the US ideas about that.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-28/ty-article/.premium/u-s-threatens-to-stop-supplying-guns-after-ben-gvir-gives-them-out-at-political-events/0000018b-77eb-d1da-a1bb-7ffb96dc0000
I would totally vote for the guy that gave me an M4. He is saying he He is worried about me and my welfare. Never had a politician in the US feel that way.
That probably explains why Hamas is carrying around M-4’s, among other various automatic weapons.
Approximately 40 million a week going to people we were trying to kill not too awful long ago.
Since Afghanistan isn’t living up to their end of the bargain, why should we?
NGOs are like a plague. Wherever there is money to be handled, they have their sticky fingers in.
Along with their minions taking kickbacks at every level.
OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT?!?! OH, WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!
Grandpa Joe wants everybody to know he is kind and generous. Unless one of your grandchildren has a stripper for a mom.
Do the people who donate to these “charitable causes” claiming to help the people of Afghanistan or “oppressed Palestinians” truly believe that their dollars actually reach the intended recipients? I’m sure they believe in the wee people too, possibly fairies.
The stoopid of do-gooders is not to be underestimated.
Funding any organization in Talibanstan is like giving your executioner a new rope. Imagine if the US was giving foreign aid to the NSDAP government of Germany in 1939.
IMHO these days we have a POTUS about as competent as Neville Chamberlain.
How about we just quit giving money to people that hate us? Has it ever provided any level of benefit?
I listen to the Lars Larson Show on 850AM radio at night and after a commercial Republican Kennedy comes out with his remarks and one of them is what you have in your above comment.
Or letting them into the country,
Shit show.
FJB
The above cartoon of the 2 Squids shoveling the green stuff into the boiler reminds me of the NYC Federal Reserve Bank in lower Manhatten burning Mutilated greenbacks in their incinerator untill the EPA stepped in to shut it down. They next shredded the mulated bills and stuffed them into plastic bags to sell to the public.
With stupidity at this level, I’m convinced the country won’t last another 100 years.
I think you added too (two?) many zeros, ANCRN.
Prepare
I dig it.
Im gonna start using two too.
I have a book given to me by a man in my Sunday School class who was an analyst in DC ‘back in the day’ that I’m going to recommend:
Sharia – the Threat to America
An Exercise in Competitive Analysis,
Report of Team B II
ISBN 978-0-9822947-6-5
It was published by the Center for Security Policy in 2010. It has aged well, and explains much of what is going on with Hamas now and with our politicians at least since “W” said “Islam is a religion of peace”.
It helps explain a lot. Much of which will be no surprise to many here.
No surprise, here. To paraphrase George C. Scott in “Patton”, “Mohammed, I’ve read your book!”
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”.
I see it. You see it.
Unfortunately, if we’re to believe the “official” numbers, there’s about 81 million people who don’t see it.
….
JUST HOW MUCH of that money is being funneled into the bank accounts of US Politicians in various kickbacks? This inquiring mind would like to know, especially the amount going to the Biden, Clinton and Pelosi families.
If we knew, there would be home brewed trebuchet’s, and not an empty lamp post for miles in any given direction.
Prepare, folks… sh*t’s about to go down where we least expect it (like in the States):
https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1720261874514628984
A. The taliban are in charge of afghanistan.
B. The biden admin is sending money to afghanistan.
C. Ergo the biden admin is funding the taliban.
Pretty damn simple even a dementia patient could understand the relationship[ there. I wonder how much of that money is being funneled back to biden.
Nothing surprises me about the Biden administration anymore.
Everything about the Biden administration causes me to look forward to death.