UN pooled accounts. Pallets of cash. And a covert cash printing operation.
Freedom Center Investigates has a new article on how USAID laundered money to the Taliban.
I believe it’s an important article, but I also thought it might be a good idea to have a briefer more visual explainer of how the scheme worked. SIGAR, the government’s Afghan war watchdog, already provided a good visual breakdown of some of the scheme.
But let’s start here.
1. In 2021, Afghanistan’s central bank, controlled by the “financier of the IEDs” that had killed over 1,000 U.S. soldiers, began tweeting pictures of shipments of blue bags of hundred dollar bills as “humanitarian aid”.
Australia’s ABC even featured a photo of the blue bags on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport containing $40 million. One of several such shipments.
Where was the money coming from? Us.
2. Here’s how I break it down in ‘USAID’s Taliban Money Laundering Scheme’.
USAID put the money into pooled UN accounts which it did not control allowing it to deny sending money to the Taliban.
3. The UN bought and shipped billions in hundred dollar bills to Afghanistan. Then deposited them in a private bank and transferred money to ‘non-profits’ on the ground. This let the UN deny it was giving money to the Taliban.
4. The non-profits then exchanged the money with ‘Afghanis’ from a Taliban-controlled bank.
Here are SIGAR’s graphics for this arrangement.
Now here’s where things get crazy.
5. The Afghani currency was being printed on behalf of the Taliban through the Biden administration. So we were behind the shipment of both dollars and Afghanis to the Taliban. The dollars were traded for Afghanis. And the Taliban got to prop up their currency and come away with a huge supply of dollars.
Now that you know how it worked, please read and share USAID’s Taliban Money Laundering Scheme where I delve into some of the implications of this arrangement.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center will continue fighting for accountability at USAID and every government agency that engaged in corruption and money laundering.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Like the $89 billion in weaponry that we left there wasn’t enough! These fired USAID personnel need to be given a rectal investigation and tried for treason
Rob Porter says
Tried for treason and when found guilty shot by a firing squad. Obviously enemies or traitors within USAID did this and must be tracked down, arrested and prosecuted. First suggestion, look for Muslims within USAID and the State Department. Right now they’re laughing.
abu taleb says
> 4. The non-profits then exchanged the money with ‘Afghanis’ from a Taliban-controlled bank.
I think, the non profits also sent some big portion of the money to UN employees and US government employees besides kept some money for themselves.
WPM says
Sounds like everyone from the “‘non-profits” to the UN ,to the Afghanis bank ,to maybe some American elected official and former officials get what they say in organized crime a taste .A piece of the taxpayers money to what end? In the long run to keep a terroristic government to stay in businesses. USAID ,the audits can show who gets a cut what American elected officials are backing the Talban to fatten their own pockets? No wonder some politician’s are very worried about these audits ,the employees of USAID will use the line they where only following orders.
James Lincoln says
How did USAID get its money in the first place?
A combination of US taxpayers / borrowed money…
Kevin Kraemer says
Just a proverbial drop in the bucket. If we really knew how much was given to the terrorists causes do to self aggrandizing governments, the good ole USA being front and center ofcourse, it would make heads explode.
As Ricky Ricardo would say, you got a lot of splaining to do!
somehistory says
The wife of the ‘judge’ who has blocked what Pres. Trump was doing on the website regarding mutilating and drugging children, has been the recipient of usaid.
There is so much evil, so much corruption, it laps back around on itself.
OLD GUY says
If this isn’t treason I don’t know what is. I guess if the political leaders lawyers don’t consider these countries and groups as enemies then its all legal. But if I send them a loaf of bread I’m aiding and abetting the enemy. Total corruption by legal means.