{"id":18276,"date":"2024-09-29T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T16:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=18276"},"modified":"2024-09-29T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T16:03:27","slug":"18276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=18276","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

And now the group discovered that, via the United Nations, more than $3.8 billion in U.S. tax dollars have gone into the nation, The New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt times, this includes the UN literally flying US cash into Afghanistan through transportation firms, per the report,\u201d The Post said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile that money is typically then moved to UN partners in Afghanistan, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that the US cash flow has both \u2018directly and indirectly\u2019 benefited the Taliban,\u201d The Post said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe humanitarian assistance facilitated by the shipments provide indirect benefits to the Taliban by stabilizing and legitimizing them, because the funds allow the Taliban to focus on their priorities and policies instead of providing essential services to the Afghan people,\u201d\u00a0the SIGAR report said.<\/p>\n

It said that \u201cunder the guise of income taxation, the Taliban have targeted and extorted money from some recipients of direct cash assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report said that \u201cUS currency is difficult to trace\u201d and that \u201cthe Taliban now have a greater ability to circumvent the controls of the international banking system that are intended to limit the Taliban\u2019s ability to conduct money laundering and fund terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

That means that while the State Department, for example, has safeguards in place to ensure funds do not benefit the Taliban, there are ways to work around it.<\/p>\n

This revelation has some veterans furious.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has to stop now. We are sending billions of dollars to the Taliban while failing to take care of our veterans who are struggling day-to-day with both physical and mental wounds,\u201d Shadow Warriors Project founder Mark \u201cOz\u201d Geist said to The Post.<\/p>\n

This is not only a slap in the face of every servicemember who served in the\u00a020 years of war with Afghanistan\u00a0and the Taliban it things even more so to those 13 families that bore the loss of their loved one when they were killed at Abbey Gate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the finding was \u201cappalling and a disgrace to those who have served in sacrificed so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Green Beret Scott Mann echoed those comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS funds \u2014 marked as humanitarian relief and counterterrorism dollars in Afghanistan \u2014 are being funneled into operationalizing, planning, and preparation of terror operations against US interests, and the homeland,\u201d he said to The Post.<\/p>\n

Former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan, who\u00a0hosts his own podcast<\/a>, was similarly furious.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a veteran who served in Afghanistan during the Global War on Terror, the notion of the US funding the Taliban is morally reprehensible and fundamentally against our national security interests, especially as we approach the three-year anniversary of Abbey Gate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again, the US State Department has failed to properly manage US taxpayers\u2019 dollars. This time, $293 million has ended up in the hands of the Taliban terror regime, potentially funding future attacks on America,\u201d The Mighty Oaks Foundation founder and Marine Chad Robichaux said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen will enough be enough, and when will this administration be held accountable for the safety and security of our nation and its citizens?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In June, Republican Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett introduced legislation to prevent the Taliban from receiving funds from the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Afghanistan withdrawal is one of the Biden administration\u2019s greatest failures,\u201d he said to The Post. \u201cThis administration has also sent the Taliban millions of taxpayer dollars since then. I introduced a bill to prevent this administration from sending one more penny to these terrorists, but it\u2019s ridiculous I had to do that in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now the group discovered that, via the United Nations, more than $3.8 billion in U.S. tax dollars have gone into the nation, The New York Post reported. \u201cAt times, this includes the UN literally flying US cash into Afghanistan through transportation firms, per the report,\u201d The Post said. \u201cWhile that money is typically then…<\/p>\n

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