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2010-06-28 Afghanistan

Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash From Kabul

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Posted by tipper 2010-06-28 00:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Pallets of cash on planes bound for... Dubai, most likely. Well, at least Dubai's getting some stimulus funds. Tommy Friedman should be happy.

Posted by lex 2010-06-28 02:22|| 2010-06-28 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Something new here? I thought this was standard procedure for US foreign aid recipient governments.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-06-28 04:26|| 2010-06-28 04:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Alternate headline:

"Obama Afghanistan Policies Fail to Stop Corruption"

Gee...I wonder why headlines like that don't exist (snark)

Posted by logi_cal 2010-06-28 07:46|| 2010-06-28 07:46|| Front Page Top

#4 ...the man's from Chicago, why would he think there's anything unusual going on?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-28 08:19|| 2010-06-28 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 If I was Karzai I'd be on one of those planes myself.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-06-28 12:22|| 2010-06-28 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 If you had suitcases full of money would you keep living in a country that smells like ass?

New Zealand is supposed to be nice.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-06-28 13:48|| 2010-06-28 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Much of this money is U.S. taxpayers money being flown out.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-28 13:58|| 2010-06-28 13:58|| Front Page Top

#8 ...er...so were billions of dollars of TARP money used in backing unsecured Frannie Mae paper Euro banks bought in the speculation markets. That flew to Europe. From there, who knows.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-28 17:31|| 2010-06-28 17:31|| Front Page Top

#9 NZ would be lovely for Karzai this time of year; with pallets of freshly-printed, worthless U$Abux, wooly rams and ewes.

Posted by Asymmetrical 2010-06-28 23:24|| 2010-06-28 23:24|| Front Page Top

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