Funds distributed by US forces to civilians in a southern province find their way to

[temperance]

This is a exerpt from this article ,I'm wondering how much merit it holds and if it is on the up and up ,WHY is this allowed --its like throwing money away ! whilst many Americans starve ,live in perish

The rest of the article is at :

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=arr&s=f&o=325721&apc_state=henparr

"An elder in another village called Lashko, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told IWPR that the villagers were well aware that they could not use the funds without Taleban consent.

“It’s the Taleban who are with us in the night-time,” he said. “They are powerful: they can enforce their rules and punish those who violate them. One day, the US troops gave us 50,000 afghani [1,000 US dollars] for a construction project, but the Taleban came to us that evening and asked us what we were going to do with it. We told them it was their decision. They took the money and left.”

According to this man, US troops arrived a few days later to see what had been accomplished with their donation. At a loss to reply, villagers told them that the Taleban had taken the money by force.

“The soldiers were angry and threatened that they would not help us against the Taleban,” he said."

 

[gopher]

Evidently, HRW has conducted some investigation into the problem of monies being funneled into the Taliban and has concluded that this claim is correct:

http://www.rawa.org/zoya_oct7-06.htm


An unconscionable shame in view of the problems faced by poor Americans. Knowing the corruption of the Bush regime, it would not surprise me to learn that this is part of its calculation to foment further war and violence thereby 'legitimizing' further interventionism and war profiteering by the likes of Halliburton.