{"id":36756,"date":"2013-07-23T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36756"},"modified":"2013-07-23T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:43:53","slug":"anti-ied-system-undermined-by-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36756","title":{"rendered":"Anti-IED system undermined by workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> tells the story about a system of barriers, called a “culvert denial system” that was designed to prevent terrorists from planting IEDs on convoy routes and harming US troops were only half-assed installed and may have contributed significantly to the deaths of Americans in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

Millions of U.S. dollars have been spent on thousands of so-called “culvert denial systems” since 2009, but a scathing report released Tuesday by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction says hundreds of the devices were never installed or installed improperly. The report said an investigation has been launched \u201cinto whether this apparent failure to perform may have been a factor in the death or injury of several U.S. soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The investigation has led to two arrests so far — an Afghan contractor and a sub-contractor. The men, who were paid $1 million by the U.S. government to install 250 culvert denial systems, didn\u2019t install the devices as promised. The ones they did install were installed incorrectly, according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, you can blame the Afghans, like I do, but they got away with it because no one was checking on them. It seems to me that if a bunch of my troops were being injured by IEDs in places that were supposed to be protected, I’d have probably got suspicious back in 2009, rather than wait for some Inspector General to uncover the scumbaggery years later.<\/p>\n

Problems with the anti-bomb systems were brought up last year by the inspector general\u2019s office, which sent an alert letter to the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last year? Just like johnny-on-the-spot, aincha? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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