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Afghanistan
U.S. officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving elite
2010-06-28
Top officials in President Hamid Karzai's government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to U.S. officials who have provided Afghanistan's authorities with wiretapping technology and other assistance in efforts to crack down on endemic graft.
Anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Bueller?
In recent months, the U.S. officials said, Afghan prosecutors and investigators have been ordered to cross names off case files, prevent senior officials from being placed under arrest and disregard evidence against executives of a major financial firm suspected of helping the nation's elite move millions of dollars overseas.

As a result, U.S. advisers sent to Kabul by the Justice Department, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration have come to see Afghanistan's corruption problem in increasingly stark terms.

"Above a certain level, people are being very well protected," said a senior U.S. official involved in the investigations.
Posted by:tipper

#4  wont happen. the guy we have in charge has no stones what so ever.
Posted by: abu do you love   2010-06-28 21:30  

#3  We needed to have occupied Afghanistan for a few (hundred) years, so we could put an end to such corruption and to build a decent government with minimum corruption. We didn't, and now we're paying the price. Hanging everyone in the current government would go a long way toward stopping that, but that would require someone with very large stones.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2010-06-28 14:23  

#2  Enough to make Eric Holder turn green with envy.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-06-28 04:23  

#1  Isn't that our tax dollars being stolen?
Posted by: Jeremiah Flainter9609   2010-06-28 02:39  

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