We’ve pointed out that this was happening many times. No one cares. The Biden regime continues to send billions to Afghanistan, claiming that the money won’t go to the Taliban. This is an absurd claim.
“Charities say Taliban intimidation diverts aid to Taliban members and causes,” by Ruchi Kumar, NPR, June 23, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The aid worker is nervous about talking to the press. He’s afraid the Taliban will threaten him for speaking out. But he believes the story he has to tell is important enough to take that risk. He asks that only his initials be used to protect his identity.
MF is on the staff of an international charity that provides food aid in northern Afghanistan. The charity gives out packages of rice, flour and oil to families who might otherwise go hungry.
The need for such food aid is more critical than ever in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. In March, the World Food Programme estimated some 20 million Afghans are going hungry, double the number of just three years ago.
But getting food aid to the right people is increasingly difficult, says MF.
Members of the local Taliban come to the charity with lists of names of people they think should get the food aid.
It’s not an official request. The Taliban ministry does not directly order the charity to comply. But these letters – or sometimes simply verbal requests – are nonetheless taken seriously.
MF believes that some of the people on the list are genuinely needy. Others, he says, are Taliban members or commanders who would not meet the charity’s criteria for receiving an aid package.
Yet the requests can’t be dismissed. “If we refuse to comply, employees are threatened, detained and even beaten on baseless charges,” says MF.
It’s one of many ways in which the Taliban has cast a pall over aid efforts in Afghanistan even as economic crises are pushing more people into hunger.
NPR interviewed six Afghan aid workers from five Afghan provinces. They shared experiences of the Taliban attempting to divert foreign aid to their members through bullying, threats of legal action and even violence. The interviewees, who requested their locations be kept discreet, span four provinces in both the north and the south….
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden and his handlers must , surely, be the useful idiots of the Taliban.
On the other hand it might be that Biden those those behind the scenes who uphold him in power are all actually despicable sinister treasonous villains
Hide says
When there’s money involved the ones who give the money to they get richer.
If you stopped aid for one year I think it would stop a lot of wars. Hide.
abu taleb says
According to Allah, there is nothing wrong for the Islam authority to grab the aid for themselves. Afterall, Islam is just a tool to enrich (certain) muslims by all means, including crimes.
9:60 The alms are only for the poor and the needy, and those who collect them, and those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to free the captives and the debtors, and for the cause of Allah, and (for) the wayfarer; a duty imposed by Allah. Allah is Knower, Wise.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban diverts foreign humanitarian aid to its own members and causes
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No one should be surprised by this.
Kayode Oyelekan says
The Taliban are not able to bail out her country people out of poverty. They shut up the country against the outside world in the name of religion which they themselves can’t practice
NoTaqiyya says
The present administration is the most Anti-American in history.
It has been one disaster after another. Yet the flocks of woke zombies are so distracted with their equity and diversity, they’re oblivious to the treachery of the administration.
OLD GUY says
Foreign aid once again is NOT being used to help the poor, but to supply the political leaders with money to maintain their power. STOP sending money and military supplies to these muslim/islamic countries and dictatorships.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden had aided and helped America’s enemy, the vicious and murderous Taliban gain total and complete power in Afghanistan. Biden really is a treasonous villain.
Now Biden wants to further uphold and support the Taliban ,who are the enemy of America and the people of Afghanistan by sending those hostile vicious oppressive Sharia based tyranny much money under the guise of “humanitarian aid.” Only the most naïve and gullible person would actually believe the any of the “aid” to go poor poverty stricken Afghans.
For the thriving Taliban will take what they want for themselves and the rest of “aid” money to go into further strengthening their Islamic terror regime.
In addition, to say: “That despicable and horrible Joe Biden created a horrendous catastrophe in Afghanistan and abandoned many Americans in that dangerous and hostile land” Is to put it mildly.
Biden should have to be called into account for that calamity that he is responsible for that disaster in Afghanistan and how he further supports the Taliban.
David Leek says
One of the Biden administration’s accounting errors?