Families of Afghan War Dead Say Contractors Bribed Taliban

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- Families of almost 150 U.S. service members and civilians who were killed or wounded in terror attacks in Afghanistan sued a group of Western contractors involved in the nation’s reconstruction for allegedly bribing the Taliban for protection for years.

The alleged payments ultimately helped finance a Taliban-led insurgency that led to the attacks in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2017, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Washington. The suit seeks unspecified damages for the families under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

“Defendants were all large Western companies with lucrative businesses in post-9/11 Afghanistan, and they all paid the Taliban to refrain from attacking their business interests,” according to the complaint. “Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans.”

The allegations are based on several confidential witnesses, internal company documents, declassified government-intelligence reporting and congressional testimony, among other sources, according to the complaint. An employee of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul called such payments “organized crime,” according to the suit.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Are we going to see the Names

belonging to this story? Betcha not!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. WOW this is a bombshell

jawdropping

[dhol82]

6. Bombshell? Nah, not so much.

Expect it to just die a quiet death.

[Skittles]

3. war profiteers

I'm sure their motives are always pure.

[erronis]

4. We know that Erik Prince, AKA Blackwater, Xe, Academi is a key operative

and will spend a few bucks to grease palms everywhere.

He doesn't give a shit if innocent lives are lost. Doesn't care too much if his operatives are lost either, just doesn't want to pay for it.

Good buddy of the orange-anus in the WH.

And since evil is always close, brother to the equally evil Betsy DeVos.

[Polybius]

9. As bad as Trump is, this is Bush's mess

That nightmare of a war and Blackwater came about under his watch. Bush is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and shady impeachable deals like this one.

[PaulRevere08]

11. As much as I loved BO as president, his biggest failure was not investigating and charging those

who lied to get us into the war and then profited from the debacle.

[dhol82]

5. Just so fucking sad!

Smedley Butler had it right.

[bluedigger]

7. I used to work for one of them.

Got a cheap Seiko for lasting ten years.

[rickyhall]

8. Yup, that's called Organised Crime

But so is the entire Grand Old Trump Party. Where's Elliot Ness?

[world wide wally]

10. Why does the name Halliburton pop into my head

[JudyM]

12. Seems this would be Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation, as well.

US companies are prohibited from bribing public officials.