"$549 million in planes sold as scrap, melting buildings, a $176 million road to nowhere and $28 million on camouflage that ‘looked good’ but didn’t match the terrain: How the US wasted billions in Afghanistan with bungled projects
- A federal watchdog monitored U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan for 12 years
- John Sopko detailed mismanagement, fraud and abuse in dozens of reports
- They make sober reading in the light of the Taliban takeover
- The U.S. spent $9 billion to wipe out opium production - but it increased
- A $36 million command center was built after the surge it was meant to house
- And $28 million was spent on forest camo in a country of two per cent tree cover...Read all.
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