The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan was the United States.'

You wonder where your money went when you hand over your money to the Treasury Department of the USA..... and they hand it to the CIA who hands it to .........

Afghan president confirms he received tens of millions of dollars from the CIA in suitcases and sacks 'for access to Karzai's inner circle'

• Afghan President Karzai confirmed that his national security team had been receiving payments from the U.S. government for 10 years
• CIA handed over tens of millions of dollars to Afghan officials for access to President Karzai
• Cash delivered in suitcases almost every month for a decade

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 08:50 EST, 29 April 2013 | UPDATED: 15:38 EST, 29 April 2013

 Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed today that his national security team had been receiving payments from the U.S. government for the past 10 years.

Karzai revealed the payments when he was asked about a story published in The New York Times.

The article said the CIA had given the Afghan National Security Council tens of millions of dollars in monthly payments delivered in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags in return for access to his inner circle.

The cash payments are the first known to be given directly to President Karzai.

Barack Obama pictured with President Karzai. it has been revealed that tens of millions of dollars has been given to Afghan officials by C.I.A

The cash payments have been made during the last ten years, straddling both George W Bush and Barack Obama's presidencies

During a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, where he was on an official visit, Karzai said the welcome monthly payments were not a 'big amount' but were a 'small amount', although he did not disclose the sums. 

He said they were used to give assistance to the wounded and sick, to pay rent for housing and for other 'operational' purposes.

He said the aid has been 'very useful, and we are grateful for it.'

 

 

The newspaper quotes Khalil Roman, who served as Mr. Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 until 2005, as calling the vast CIA payments 'ghost money' that 'came in secret, and it left in secret.' 

It also quotes unidentified American officials as saying that 'the cash has fueled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington's exit strategy from Afghanistan.'

In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to comment on the report, referring questions to the CIA, which also declined comment.

In 2010, Iran acknowledged that it had been sending funds to neighboring Afghanistan for years, but said the money was intended to aid reconstruction, not to buy influence in Karzai's office. 

Karzai admitted in 2010 that once or twice a year Iran gave his office between £445,000 and £620,000 for official presidential expenses - and that Washington provided 'bags of money' because his office lacks funds.

Hamid Karzai confirmed his government received payments from U.S in 2010. The latest information reveals much larger figures than were suspected

President Karzai, pictured with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010. A U.S source said 'the biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan was the United States'

When Iran's payments to the Afghan government were revealed three years ago, U.S. officials condemned the behaviour.

The Afghan president confirmed that Washington was giving him 'bags of money', too, because his office lacked funds.

Some of the CIA's money is believed to be used to pay off warlords and politicians who may have links to the Taliban.

At the time, President Barack Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, denied that the U.S. government was in 'the big bags of cash business', but former U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley had said earlier that some of the American aid to Afghanistan was in cash.

U.S. officials also asserted then that the money flowing from Tehran was proof that Iran was playing a double game in Afghanistan - wooing the government while helping Taliban insurgents fighting U.S. and NATO forces. Iran denied that

A U.S. source said in an interview with the New York Times that the security agency's money, 'has fueled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington’s exit strategy from Afghanistan.'

Another American official said: 'The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan was the United States.'

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Iran Plot and the 12th Iman

Rep. Rogers: Iran Assassination Plot Crosses 'Very Dangerous Threshold'

Thursday, 13 Oct 2011 06:09 PM

By Martin Gould and Ashley Martella

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The foiled Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C. crosses a "very dangerous threshold," says House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers — one that demands an unprecedented level of action from the Obama administration to stop the rising Islamist power.

“The longer we put off an aggressive international approach to this, the worse off we are all going to be,” said the six-term Michigan Republican in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview.

“Imagine a nation state that’s engaged in trying to kill U.S. soldiers and coalition forces in Iraq; that is plotting to kill an ambassador, the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, here in Washington D.C.; oh, and by the way, they’re going to get nuclear weapons.”

President Obama also will have to make the case to the world for action against Iran, and that will mean pressuring China and Russia to fall in line. The two UN Security Council permanent members need to be told they have to stand with the rest of the world in opposition to the Tehran government, Rogers said.

“It is important for us, us, as the international community, to band together and say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, you have to make a choice here, you have to be for them and for a state sponsor of terrorism, or you are going to be with the rest of the international community. This is your chance.’

“I’m not pollyannaish enough to believe they are all of a sudden going to change their minds but we need to make them very uncomfortable,” he added.

Rogers was speaking just as Obama told reporters that Iranian involvement in the thwarted plot was “part of a pattern of dangerous and reckless behavior."

“What you're going to see is folks throughout the Middle East region questioning their ability to work effectively with Iran," added the president.

Rogers said he agrees with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran is about two years away from getting a nuclear weapon, and that must be stopped at all costs. He believes that the reason the plot targeted Saudi ambassador Adel al-Jubeir was due to Riyadh’s strong position opposing a nuclear Iran.

“They have been aggressive about saying that it is really dangerous if Iran gets a nuclear weapon,” said Rogers. “It’s destabilizing to the whole region and it unleashes the hordes of their intelligence service to do really bad things.”

The plot to kill al-Jubeir by blowing up a Washington restaurant as he ate was revealed by Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday. Rogers, Obama and other leaders had known about it since being briefed in June. Two Iranians have been charged in connection with the plot, one is in custody and the other is still on the run.

Iran has denied any link to the plot, but Rogers was adamant that the plot was real and that senior officials in the Iranian government were behind it.

“Evidence is evidence,” he said. “I’m a former FBI agent and I can tell you, I’ve looked at the case, I’ve looked at the evidence, I was briefed when this thing started to unfold months ago and they have nowhere to go.

“The evidence in this case is incredibly strong and that’s why you see such a widespread agreement of Republicans and Democrats and senior intelligence officials and DOJ officials. Yes this happened. Yes, it was tied to Iran. Yes, this crossed a very dangerous threshold.”

Rogers said Manssor Arbabsiar, the man who is in custody, is cooperating and has admitted to ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force and to the very top in Tehran.

“This was an operation that would have cost $1.5 million, so you know someone senior in there has already been involved,” he said. “You know that the Quds force has a direct command relationship (with) the Supreme Leader.”

He said that because of the brazenness of the assassination plot it is safe to assume that it is not the first time – nor will it be the last – that Quds operatives have killed their enemies.

”It’s important to know the Quds force has been up to no good and dangerous activities for years, and went relatively unmolested by the rest of the world, unchallenged by the rest of the world. This is what led to this very brazen activity and, one could extrapolate, there is likely to be other plans… in the works.”

He said Quds operatives have been operating with impunity in both Iraq and Afghanistan in killing American and coalition soldiers.

Now, he said, it is time to “ratchet up” sanctions on Iran. “It would be a serious mistake if they didn’t feel some pain as a result of what was a very aggressive operation to commit an act of violence for political gain in the United States.”

But he said he does not agree with House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Peter King of New York, who has called on Obama to expel all Iranian diplomats from the United States. “We don’t have a formal diplomatic relationship as it stands, there’s a consulate up in New York that we do some dealings with,” he pointed out.

“I always believe that even in a time of extreme tension, you need at least somebody to talk to, to either de-escalate or make an agreement about why they ought to change their ways. So I would be a little careful about going there.

“But that doesn’t mean we should not be incredibly aggressive about targeting Quds force people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about making sure that the Quds force operatives, wherever they are in the world, are going to have difficulty operating, and that we continue to put pressure on Iran.”



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