This is what the Pentagon is busy doing-- studies for investment potential?
June 2010
A Pentagon team, working with geologists and other experts, has shared its data with the Afghan government, and is working with the Afghan Ministry of Mines to prepare information for potential investors in hopes of placing some mineral exploration rights up for auction within the next six months. Afghan officials said they believed that the American estimates of the value of the mineral deposits — nearly $1 trillion — were too conservative, and that they could be worth as much as $3 trillion.
Pentagon, Afghan Ministry of Mines,Insiders
What's that all about?
I don't see it in the article or the link you provided.