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Congressional Investigation Confirms: US Military Funds Afghan Warlords

Security for key US military supply routes in Afghanistan is in the hands of a small group of powerful Afghan warlords who run a massive protection racket and may be paying off the Taliban, according to a Congressional report being released Tuesday. The report, an advance copy of which was obtained by The Nation, discloses that the Army has opened a criminal investigation into the payoffs, as an Army Criminal Investigation Command spokesman confirmed this evening to the Associated Press.

The jarring report, called “Warlord, Inc,” is the result of a six-month investigation prompted by a Nation cover story last November, "How the US Funds the Taliban," about the largest US logistics contract in Afghanistan. Under that $2.16 billion contract, called Host Nation Trucking (HNT), the US Army has hired eight civilian trucking firms to transport supplies to the web of combat outposts and bases set up through Afghanistan. The Nation story, which was reported in conjunction with the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute, described how US taxpayer dollars being funneled into an elaborate system of extortion in Afghanistan as well-connected security firms made payoffs to warlords allied with insurgents for safe passage of US military goods.

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http://www.thenation.com/article/36493/congressional-investigation-confirms-us-military-funds-afghan-warlords