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Taliban, criminals get $360 million from US taxes
Losses underscore challenges US and international partners face in
overcoming corruption in Afghanistan
By DEB RIECHMANN, RICHARD LARDNER
updated 8/17/2011 7:23:41 AM ET
WASHINGTON — After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the
U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led
coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both.
The losses underscore the challenges the U.S. and its international partners face in overcoming corruption in
Afghanistan.
A central part of the Obama administration's strategy has been to award U.S.-financed contracts to Afghan
businesses to help improve quality of life and stoke the country's economy.
But until a special task force assembled by Gen. David Petraeus began its investigation last year, the coalition had
little visibility into the connections many Afghan companies and their vast network of subcontractors had with
insurgents and criminals — groups military officials call "malign actors."
In a murky process known as "reverse money laundering," payments from the U.S. pass through companies hired
by the military for transportation, construction, power projects, fuel and other services to businesses and
individuals with ties to the insurgency or criminal networks, according to interviews and task force documents
obtained by the AP.
"Funds begin as clean monies," according to one document, then "either through direct payments or through the
flow of funds in the subcontractor network, the monies become tainted."
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The conclusions by Task Force 2010 represent the most definitive assessment of how U.S. military spending and
aid to Afghanistan has been diverted to the enemy or stolen.
Only a small percentage of the $360 million has been garnered by the Taliban and insurgent groups, said a senior
U.S. military official in Kabul.
The bulk of the money was lost to profiteering, bribery and extortion by criminals and power brokers, said the
official, who declined to provide a specific breakdown. The official requested anonymity to discuss the task force's
ongoing investigation into the movement of U.S. contract money in Afghanistan. The documents obtained by The
Associated Press were prepared earlier this year and provide an overview of the task force's work.

2. 'Corrupt political elites'
Overall, the $360 million represents a fraction of the $31 billion in active U.S. contracts that the task force
reviewed.
But insurgents rely on crude weaponry and require little money to operate. And the illicit gains buttress what the
International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank, referred to in a June report as a "nexus between criminal
enterprises, insurgent networks and corrupt political elites" in Afghanistan.
More than half the losses flowed through a large transportation contract called Host Nation Trucking, the official
said.
Eight companies served as prime contractors and hired a web of nearly three dozen subcontractors for vehicles and
convoy security to ship huge amounts of food, water, fuel and ammunition to American troops stationed at bases
across Afghanistan.
The Defense Department announced Monday that it had selected 20 separate contractors for a new transportation
contract potentially worth $983.5 million to replace Host Nation Trucking.
Officials said the new arrangement will reduce the reliance on subcontractors and diminish the risk of money being
lost.
Under the new National Afghan Trucking Services contract, the military will be able to choose from a deeper pool
of companies competing against one another to offer the best price to move supplies.
The new arrangement also gives the U.S. more flexibility in determining whether security is needed for supply
convoys and who should provide it, according to a description of the contract.
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The Pentagon did not provide the names of the 20 companies picked due to worries that larger contractors who
weren't selected might try and coerce them into a takeover, the senior defense official said.
None of the eight prime contractors affiliated with the Host Nation Trucking contract are part of the new
arrangement, the official added.
HEB International Logistics of Dubai, a Host Nation Trucking prime contractor, "made payments directly to
malign actors," one of the task force documents reads.
Warlord got $1.7 million
In 2009 and 2010, an HEB subcontractor identified in the document only as "Rohullah" received $1.7 million in
payments. A congressional report issued last year said Rohullah — whose name is spelled Ruhallah in that report
— is a warlord who controlled the convoy security business along the highway between Kabul and Kandahar, the
two largest cities in Afghanistan.
Half a dozen attempts to reach officials at HEB's offices in Dubai by telephone were unsuccessful due to calls
being transferred and lines going dead. It is also the holy month of Ramadan when many employees work
shortened days and offices close early.
The congressional report said Rohullah's hundreds of heavily armed guards operated a protection racket, charging
contractors moving U.S. military supplies along the highway as much as $1,500 a vehicle.
Failure to pay virtually guaranteed a convoy of being attacked by Rohullah's forces, said the report, "Warlord Inc."

3. Rohullah's guards regularly fought with the Taliban, but investigators believe Rohullah moved money to the
Taliban when it was in his interest to do so.
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Both Rohullah and the security company he was affiliated with, Watan Risk Management, denied ever making
payments to the insurgents, according to the report.
But in December, the U.S. placed Watan in "proposed debarment status," which prevented it from signing new
contracts or renewing existing contracts.
Watan challenged the decision in federal court. Two weeks ago, Watan and U.S. officials signed an agreement that
states the company may not bid on any mobile security contracts for the next three years. The ban does not affect
other companies controlled by Watan's owners.
The task force also said contractors engaged in profiteering by forming dummy companies. A task force document
shows three tiers of subcontractors below Guzar Mirbacha Kot Transportation, an Afghan-owned trucking
company known as GMT. Four of the subcontractors appear on the first and second tiers, collecting $14.2 million
in payments.
Basir Mujahid, a GMT representative in Kabul, said top company officials were in Dubai and could not be reached
for immediate comment.
Power broker arms Taliban
Power brokers — a term widely used in Afghanistan — refer to Afghans who leverage their political and business
connections to advance their own interests.
Another task force document details the case of a power broker who owned a private security company and was
known to supply weapons to the Taliban.
The power broker, who is not named in the document, received payments from a contractor doing business with
the U.S. Over more than two years, the power broker funneled $8.5 million to the owners of an unlicensed money
exchange service used by insurgents, according to the document.
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Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., former chairman of the House oversight panel that investigated the wayward
payments, said that the U.S. must stop the diversion of taxpayer dollars to the enemy.
"When war becomes good business for the insurgents, it is all the more difficult to convince them to lay down their
arms," Tierney said.
U.S. authorities in Afghanistan are screening contractors more carefully to be sure they can handle the work and
also are trustworthy, the senior military official said.
Authorities also are being more aggressive in barring companies if they violate contract terms or are found to be
involved in illicit activities.
Since the task force was created last year, the number of debarred Afghan, U.S. and international companies and
individuals associated with contracting in Afghanistan has more than doubled — from 31 to 78, the official said.

4. Petraeus, who recently relinquished command in Afghanistan to become CIA director, told his commanders in a
September 2010 memo to keep close watch over contracting dollars and "know those with whom we are
contracting."
Failing to do so could "unintentionally fuel corruption, finance insurgent organizations, strengthen criminal
patronage networks, and undermine our efforts in Afghanistan," he wrote.
Tierney, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform national security subcommittee, said
the new trucking contract announced Monday is a welcome step.
But he said he is still worried the military still lacks sufficient visibility and accountability over payments. The
subcommittee has scheduled a hearing next month to examine the contract and the risks of outsourcing security in
a combat zone.