US defense contractors pay insurgents millions, report says

US defense contractors pay insurgents millions, report says. The official explanation is that the Taliban is too powerful to defeat, so US forces simply pay them not to attack. The reality, however, is that this war is not meant to be won but rather sustained. - G.Edward Griffin

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By John Byrne
Thursday, November 12th, 2009

US defense contractors are funding insurgents in Afghanistan, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, according to a report in The Nation published Thursday.

The report, by veteran investigative correspondent Aram Roston, asserts that US military contractors charged with assisting US forces in Afghanistan are actually funding the groups killing American soldiers. Roston describes a protection racket similar to that of the mafia, in which contractors pay the Taliban "protection money" not to attack them.

"In this grotesque carnival, the US military's contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes," Roston writes. "It is an accepted fact of the military logistics operation in Afghanistan that the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting. And it is a deadly irony, because these funds add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban.

"It's a big part of their income," a top Afghan government security official purportedly told told The Nation.

Added an American defense executive, "The Army is basically paying the Taliban not to shoot at them. It is Department of Defense money."

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