Karzai Krime Family Gets Rich on Pentagon Money through extortion and racketeering, Karzais funnel money to Taliban

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If the Karzai Krime Family was running their drug sales and protection racket in Chicago, Eliot Ness would have charged them with extortion and racketeering and put them in prison by now. 

Instead, the billions spent on the war by the Pentagon go to pay private contractors to truck supplies to the troops; the contractors pay protection money—about $2.2 BILLION-- to the Taliban; the “enemy” Taliban use that money to buy weapons to kill US troops.

The Karzai Krime Family is reaping riches on the blood and bodies of our troops.  While most Afghans live in hovels without clean water or electricity, billions of dollars in US aid has poured into Afghanistan and directly into the pockets of Heroin Hamid and his brother Wally and his cousins.

 

While the US pours marrow and money into the battle for drugs and rocks, the Karzai Krime Family become richer; is this the "credible partner" the Pentagon needs to "succeed"?

Watan Risk Management is run by President Karzai's cousins, Hashmat Karzai, another relative of the president runs the Asia Security Group and one security firm is controlled by the parliamentary speaker's son.

Watan Risk, the firm run by Ahmad Rateb Popal and Rashid Popal, Karzai family relatives and former drug dealers. Watan controls one key stretch of road that all the truckers use: the strategic route to Kandahar.  Watan Risk has a monopoly on this vital route.

NCL, a company owned by Hamed Wardak, son of Afghanistan's current defense minister, Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, pays extortion money to the Karza Krime Family. NCL is billed $500,000 per month.  NCL, operating on a $360 million contract from the US military, owned by the Afghan defense minister's son, is paying millions per year from Defense Department funds to a company owned by President Karzai's cousins, for protection.

Afghanistan's intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security, alerted the American military to the problem, explaining how the Taliban are profiting from protecting convoys of US supplies.

The Pentagon is turning a blind eye to the funneling of US “treasure” to the Taliban.

Col. Wayne Shanks, the chief public affairs officer for the international forces in Afghanistan, said that military officials are "aware of allegations that procurement funds may find their way into the hands of insurgent groups, but we do not directly support or condone this activity, if it is occurring...the relationships between contractors and their subcontractors, as well as between subcontractors and others in their operational communities, are not entirely transparent."

 SEE full story by Aram Rostom:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston

Aram Roston

Aram Roston is an investigative journalist and the author of The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi (Nation Books).