{"id":149282,"date":"2023-11-02T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149282"},"modified":"2023-11-02T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:52:56","slug":"taliban-benefiting-from-funds-sent-to-afghanistan-from-the-us-and-from-other-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149282","title":{"rendered":"Taliban benefiting from funds sent to Afghanistan from the US and from other donors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every two weeks, approximately $80 million in aid pours into Afghanistan. This aid is intended to support humanitarian purposes. One of the caveats to this humanitarian aid is that the Taliban are not among the beneficiaries. However, the Taliban leverages its control to obtain information from aid groups and to funnel money into their coffers. One tactic that they use involves phony nonprofit organizations intended to receive funds. The Washington Free Beacon article also states that Team Biden is in talks with the Taliban that could lead to the United States officially recognizing the Taliban government.<\/p>\n

From The Washington Free Beacon:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The United Nations sends “cash shipments” to Afghanistan every 10 to 14 days, money that is supposed to be shielded from the Taliban, according to the latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Biden administration has allocated more than $2.5 billion for humanitarian projects in Afghanistan since its 2020 evacuation from the country, and international donors provided billions more for the country.<\/p>\n

While the State Department has provided assurances this aid is not enriching the Taliban, SIGAR reports that the terror group’s “interference into UN and NGO activities has continued to rise throughout 2023.” This interference includes arresting aid workers and demanding that “sensitive data” about various projects be turned over to Taliban officials. The terror group also “indirectly benefit[s] from U.S. education funding through the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor assistance, and by infiltrating and extorting existing Afghan NGOs delivering educational assistance,” according to SIGAR’s summary of its report.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which remains active in the war-torn country, also said that “agency-funded projects were affected by Taliban interference” in recent months, according to the SIGAR report. But the Taliban’s meddling in international aid projects has not stopped the United States and other Western nations from pumping money into Afghanistan, generating concerns the terror group is enriching itself while the nation starves.<\/p>\n

USAID reported that “some of their partner staff members had been detained this quarter by local Taliban authorities because of the staff members’ efforts to prevent the diversion of aid to non-eligible individuals,” according to SIGAR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Truth? Or fiction? The Washington Free Beacon has the rest of the details, and the link to the report, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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