Report: Afghan security contracts funding warlords, Taliban - washingtonpost

The U.S. military has only minimal knowledge of - and virtually no control over - the thousands of Afghans it pays to guard its operating bases and other installations, including "warlords and strongmen linked to murder, kidnapping, bribery," as well as the Taliban, Senate investigators said in a blistering report released Thursday. -- U.S. funds go to Taliban, warlords, report finds

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