US Government Funding Terrorist Groups

[Treasure_Hunter]

At Least 43 Reconstruction Contracts Going to Terrorist Groups

*by*Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

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It’s extremely ironic for the US State Department to be issuing*travel alerts*for US citizens in the Middle East and North Africa the same week we learn that the Pentagon is contracting with Al Qaeda and Taliban supporters to carry out Afghan reconstruction projects. *

Tony Capaccio of*Bloomberg News*cites a quarterly report to Congress by Special Inspector for Afghan Reconstruction John Sopko.The report reveals Sopko asked the US Army Suspension and Disbarment office to cancel 43 contracts to known Al Qaeda and Taliban supporters. They refused. The reason? The Suspension and Disbarment Office claims it would violate Al Qaeda and Taliban “due process rights.”

Curious, isn’t it? Official terrorist groups have due process rights, but not whistleblowers, Guantanamo detainees, or ordinary Americans subject to continual surveillance by NSA.

The intelligence community has been quietly leaking evidence for more than a decade that the US is secretly funding Al Qaeda to promote political instability (and justify continued military intervention) in the Middle East. In the last two years the CIA has been caught red-handed funding and training Al Qaeda militants in*Libyaand*Syria

Based on Sopko’s report, Pentagon support for Al Qaeda and the Taliban is official as of August 1.

Let me see if I can think this through: the Pentagon is giving Al Qaeda and the Taliban funding, even though Al Qaeda and the Taliban are planning to carry out attacks on US citizens. How can this be happening? It would appear the US government is at war with their own people.

The 236 page quarterly report Sopko submitted to Congress also raises grave concerns about Obama’s request for $10.7 billion in 2014 for Afghan reconstruction projects. All would be carrying out by civilian contractors, of which 30-40% would be local Afghan businesses.

Sopko argues the Pentagon already fails abysmally in monitoring an existing $32 million program to install bars or gratings in culverts to prevent insurgents from planting roadside bombs in them. He thinks at bare minimum the Department of Defense should now how many contracts they have issued under this program. They don’t. Thus it seems pretty obvious they aren’t vetting the contractors, much less monitoring where the money is going.**

It?s Official: US Funding Al Qaeda and Taliban | Veterans Today

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[Red James Cash]

Must be those shovel ready jobs obozo was bragging about.

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

It’s extremely ironic for the US State Department to be issuing*travel alerts*for US citizens in the Middle East and North Africa the same week we learn that the Pentagon is contracting with Al Qaeda and Taliban supporters to carry out Afghan reconstruction projects. *

Tony Capaccio of*Bloomberg News*cites a quarterly report to Congress by Special Inspector for Afghan Reconstruction John Sopko.The report reveals Sopko asked the US Army Suspension and Disbarment office to cancel 43 contracts to known Al Qaeda and Taliban supporters. They refused. The reason? The Suspension and Disbarment Office claims it would violate Al Qaeda and Taliban “due process rights.”

Are they freaking kidding?
Whatever happened to aiding and abetting the enemy?

I wish there was an attorney in this country, with big enough ones, to bring up the charges!

 

[Red James Cash]

Whatever happened to aiding and abetting the enemy?

We are the enemy now.

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

I'm gonna need more bullets!

 

[Dave44]

Must be those shovel ready jobs obozo was bragging about.

Yes, there is that. But to really slash the deficit you have to decide what the budget is, add to it every year, and then pay less for the destruction than you had estimated.

Don't worry though,, if you pay less than the marked up amount you can roll that money back into a new scheme that could have an even higher body count.

Everyone is the winner! the budget keeps going up, the amount paid doesn't matter because the estimate was already inflated way over the cost, and someone comes out claiming to have slashed the "deficit" in half! And then you can claim it was the Tea Parties fault! Brilliant!

 

[Red James Cash]

I'm gonna need more bullets!

Buy what you think you need then triple it.

 

[BrisJoe]

Pffft this has been going on for a lot longer then the last decade. They have previously openly admitted that they were the ones who armed and trained Osama and his motley crew back in the 70's/80's as a crude attempt to keep the Russians out of Afgan.

 

[jeff of pa]

the Pentagon is contracting with Al Qaeda and Taliban supporters
to carry out Afghan reconstruction projects.

HaHaHa

why did Bridge on the River Kwai just pop in my head

 

[jerseyben]

Every now and then this topic pops up with some new twist or spin.

My response will be the same as it always is:

We have been providing foreign aid (in many different ways) for a LONG time. Nothing new.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

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[Unclebuck257]

TH, I appreciate your posting this in your initial thread post, but probably for the very rarest of times, I find myself agreeing with ben and pip. BrisJoe hit the nail on the head when he said that we've been doing this sort of thing for decades and Osama and his cute little band of bushwackers were definitely backed, and armed, by us back when they were fighting the Russians with the Afghans. We just didn't know about it decades back. Just look at McCain a couple of months ago. He openly called for us to be arming the Syrian rebels, many of whom are Al Queda fighters. I wouldn't vote for that man again for dogcatcher, however he pushed very hard for us to arm those Syrians. It's purely global politics and most of this type of thing is done covertly and done on our behalf through our CIA.

And yeah, triple what you think you need and then buy more if you can!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

TH, I appreciate your posting this in your initial thread post, but probably for the very rarest of times, I find myself agreeing with ben and pip. BrisJoe hit the nail on the head when he said that we've been doing this sort of thing for decades and Osama and his cute little band of bushwackers were definitely backed, and armed, by us back when they were fighting the Russians with the Afghans. We just didn't know about it decades back. Just look at McCain a couple of months ago. He openly called for us to be arming the Syrian rebels, many of whom are Al Queda fighters. I wouldn't vote for that man again for dogcatcher, however he pushed very hard for us to arm those Syrians. It's purely global politics and most of this type of thing is done covertly and done on our behalf through our CIA.

And yeah, triple what you think you need and then buy more if you can!

Note, I said nothing about Obama.

Wrong is wrong although most of the left believes if it was done previously it is okay now, I don't believe that, wrong is wrong no matter who controls the Whitehouse.

We will NOT go quitely into the night!

 

[TheRingFinder]

TH - My thoughts exactly!!!

 

[Unclebuck257]

Note, I said nothing about Obama.

Wrong is wrong although most of the left believes if it was done previously it is okay now, I don't believe that, wrong is wrong no matter who controls the Whitehouse.

We will NOT go quitely into the night!

Just so we're clear, I never said you did say anything about Obammy. And I agree with your statement here.