Yet Pakistan’s prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi says: “US aid in the last five years has been less than $10m a year. So when I read that aid at the level of $250m or 500 or 900 has been cut, we at least are not aware of that aid.”
That's a very interesting statement from the PM. Several things must be happening to our tax dollars to one of the most corrupt countries on the globe:
<><> somebody is getting filthy rich on our tax dollars disguised as foreign aid.
<><> official Pakistan is skimming hundreds of million off the top before it gets to the govt coffers;
<><> someone in the US govt could also be getting a bundle before the money leaves the US Treasury.
NY POST REPORT Alfonso Portillo---ex-president of Central America's Guatemala--- faced charges in New York that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to (ahem) redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.
Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.
Portillo colluded w/ corrupt C/A insiders---he personally endorsed three $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by a close associate and political supporter.
The embezzled foreign aid money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.
<><> Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...
<><> plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator...
<><> through overdrafts financed by public reserves the pilfered foreign aid money paid for expensive watches and cars, for Portillo and his associates. (NY POST excerpt 5/28/13)
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/
former_guatemala_program_used_from_bJ7Akdr3YK85070OumW5FN
Perhaps, all of these choices are in play.
Running a black-op war machine and crime syndicate is expensive.