The head of a US congressional subcommittee is asking a federal agency to investigate whether Afghanistan President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
is misappropriating foreign aid funding to benefit himself and his family.
Representative Dana Rohrabacher announced on his website that he has requested an investigation by the US Government Accountability Office.
The request for an investigation coincides with consideration in Congress of President Barack Obama
On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today...
's 2013 budget proposal that includes $2.5 billion for Afghanistan.
| Karzai takes way more than 10 percent. Maybe we should just stick to bribing Zardari... |
| It's Afghanistan. Everyone is skimming, not just the man at the top. |
Rohrabacher is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on oversight and investigations.
"American taxpayer money must cease being diverted and abused by the leader of a country whose people America has tried so valiantly to help," Rohrabacher's letter said. "A report that thoroughly quantifies how much US foreign aid has gone to the Karzai family is urgently needed." He cited media reports and Wikileaks cables as sources for his allegations.
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported March 7 that Karzai's brother, Mahmoud Karzai, received interest-free loans to buy a stake in the Kabul Bank, where the allegations of financial corruption are centered.
| Lots of green companies in the U.S. kicking themselves right now: "Cheez, the Karzai boys got interest-free loans? What schlubs we are taking Champ's green money!" |
"It is time to know for sure, on the record, exactly how dishonest the government in Kabul has become and how much money we are wasting there," Rohrabacher wrote.
| Completely and 100%. Any other questions? |