US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops

[Disir]

Nearly 400 people who were either wounded while serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan or are family members of service members who died in the conflict sued a group of companies on Friday they say helped fund attacks against Americans by making protection payments to the Taliban.

“Defendants supported the Taliban for a simple reason: 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,” the 288-page complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Friday states. “Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans.”

Relying on confidential witnesses, internal documents and publicly available information from journalists, government watchdogs and congressional hearings, the complaint alleges companies that worked in war-torn Afghanistan commonly acceded to the Taliban’s mob-style demands for payment in exchange for the guarantee that their businesses interests would not be attacked.
US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops

This shit irritates me to no end.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

While vet homelessness and suicides go ignored. .

 

[skews13]

Nearly 400 people who were either wounded while serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan or are family members of service members who died in the conflict sued a group of companies on Friday they say helped fund attacks against Americans by making protection payments to the Taliban.

“Defendants supported the Taliban for a simple reason: 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,” the 288-page complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Friday states. “Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans.”

US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The worst kept secret in Afghanistan: The private contractors pay off the Taliban for protection. The Taliban uses these funds to kill Americans. This money is actually taxpayer money, funneled to the good ol' boy network, which then funnels it to the taliban. I hope a lot of people go to prison. (spoiler alert: they won't. not a single one.)

 

[rightwinger]

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Protection money to protect your employees

 

[jc456]

So, the court will tell us if it’s true

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Protection money to protect your employees

Yet their contracts specify they will provide their own security. It appears that paying off terrorists to kill other Americans instead is cheaper than providing this security.

 

[Rambunctious]

All made possible with 10 million dollar gas stations in Afghanistan under the Obama regime....

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

All made possible with 10 million dollar gas stations in Afghanistan under the Obama regime....

Dude, save your Obama Tourette's for one of the eleventy billion Obama tourette's threads. This use of private contractors transcends any one administration.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Protection money to protect your employees

No.
All the negative, damning affects of globalism/corporatism.
Companies doing business in a global setting can and do lose their allegiance to any one country, and play a large role in developing/monetizing unscrupulous regions/countries in the name of making a profit.
I have been saying for years the Middle East should have been kept running around with WWI rifles and camels, it was globalist corporations that heavily invested in the region, including arming them for the sole purpose of bribing the governments to allow them to build their companies.
This is yet another thing that has nothing to do with Republican/Democrat that we should all be upset about.

 

[Rambunctious]

All made possible with 10 million dollar gas stations in Afghanistan under the Obama regime....

Dude, save your Obama Tourette's for one of the eleventy billion Obama tourette's threads. This use of private contractors transcends any one administration.

Just noting the origin....

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Just noting the origin....

Then you would have mentioned the Bush administration. So no, you were just having an Obama tourettes outburst.

 

[Augustine_]

Nearly 400 people who were either wounded while serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan or are family members of service members who died in the conflict sued a group of companies on Friday they say helped fund attacks against Americans by making protection payments to the Taliban.

“Defendants supported the Taliban for a simple reason: 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,” the 288-page complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Friday states. “Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans.”

US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops

Any winnings from the lawsuit will be covered by an increase in funding for the contractors in the next Trump budget

 

[jc456]

All made possible with 10 million dollar gas stations in Afghanistan under the Obama regime....

Dude, save your Obama Tourette's for one of the eleventy billion Obama tourette's threads. This use of private contractors transcends any one administration.

Facts are facts. Why do you hate them so?

 

[Rambunctious]

Just noting the origin....

Then you would have mentioned the Bush administration. So no, you were just having an Obama tourettes outburst.

Bush...Obama...Bush...Obama...not much difference there...that is why Trump is president now...

 

[jc456]

Nearly 400 people who were either wounded while serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan or are family members of service members who died in the conflict sued a group of companies on Friday they say helped fund attacks against Americans by making protection payments to the Taliban.

“Defendants supported the Taliban for a simple reason: 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,” the 288-page complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Friday states. “Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans.”

US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops

Any winnings from the lawsuit will be covered by an increase in funding for the contractors in the next Trump budget

Again things the left doesn’t get

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Facts are facts.

Definitely. The use of private contractors in Afghanistan, started by Bush and continued by Obama and by Trump, is, indeed, a fact. Now go on, have your little Obama Tourettes episode and post another idiotic, 3-syllable question, as is your style.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Bush...Obama...Bush...Obama...not much difference there..

In this respect and this topic? you are correct, there isn't.

 

[Rambunctious]

Bush...Obama...Bush...Obama...not much difference there..

In this respect and this topic? you are correct, there isn't.

I think we can find common ground here FFI....

 

[jc456]

Facts are facts.

Definitely. The use of private contractors in Afghanistan, started by Bush and continued by Obama and by Trump, is, indeed, a fact. Now go on, have your little Obama Tourettes episode and post another idiotic, 3-syllable question, as is your style.

Okay, so what’s your point? Obammy helped, so how was the dude wrong invoking obammy