Posted on 12/28/2019 3:32:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The families of nearly 150 U.S. soldiers and contractors who were killed or wounded in Afghanistan sued American and international contractors for allegedly paying protection money to the Taliban and indirectly supporting the terrorist group.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court on Friday, the plaintiffs alleged that the contractors working on various reconstruction projects across the war-torn country often greased the palms of the Taliban through local sub-contractors, reported the Wall Street Journal.
The lawsuit alleges that the subcontractors hired and paid Taliban guards directly in order to save on security costs and that the Taliban used that money to fuel terrorist attacks on U.S. troops and companies that didn’t engage in the practices.
The plaintiffs are the families of 143 U.S. soldiers and contractors who died or were wounded in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2017.
“This [lawsuit] will change the way business is done in war zones,” August Cabrera, the wife of Lt. Col. David Cabrera who was killed in a suicide car bomb attack on Oct. 29, 2011, told the Journal.
“I believe that this can bring justice to those of us who have lost somebody,” she said.
The Friday lawsuit names two big American government contractors, the United States Agency for International Development: DAI Global LLC and Louis Berger Group. Some major projects cited in the lawsuit include Kajaki Dam and a portion of Afghanistan’s Ring Road.
The lawsuit comes in the wake of the United States and the Taliban restarting peace talks in December that focus on the terrorist group reducing violence and both sides eventually reaching a permanent ceasefire.
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hmm
I would imagine it is difficult to impossible to vet anyone for a job in that country.
I guess one can say we lost this “war”. Not much can be shown for the cost in lives,treasure and military.
Bushes and Clintons made out OK, I'll wager.
We just need to get the hell out of there.
We will never drag them out of the 7th century.
It is Afghanistan, the best we could have hoped for is a draw.
Why are we still working on reconstruction projects?? How many years have we been there? What are we doing and why?
Enough.
But what about all the untold riches in strategic minerals?
/s
We need to get the hell out of that HELLHOLE!!
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