Friday, August 20, 2021

$549M in planes sold as scrap and a $176M road to nowhere: How the US wasted billions in Afghanistan | Daily Mail Online

$549M in planes sold as scrap and a $176M road to nowhere: How the US wasted billions in Afghanistan | Daily Mail Online
"$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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