Bags of hundred dollar bills traded through a terrorist bank.
In 2022, the DA Afghanistan Bank showed off photos of $40 million in stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. The Taliban controlled central bank described this as one of three shipments of “humanitarian aid” amounting to over $100 million.
DAB, Afghanistan’s central bank, was headed by Noor Ahmad Agha, a “specially designated terrorist” who had been named as the “financier of bomb-making”, including the IEDs which had killed over 1,000 American soldiers, and sending money to a sanctioned figure was illegal.
Despite that someone had sent a massive fortune in U.S. cash to the Taliban’s terror bank.
While no international organization was willing to admit to the cash-smuggling operation, the ultimate responsibility lay with USAID. The $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan.
The cash had to be physically shipped because it was illegal for U.S. banks to provide it to the Taliban. USAID was helping finance an illegal operation to circumvent sanctions on terrorists.
When the State Department and USAID claimed that they “do not provide assistance to or through the Taliban” but work “with trusted international partners with extensive experience working in challenging environments like Afghanistan”, it was a half-truth at best.
The “trusted international partners” included the UN. USAID funded the UN which used an intermediary to purchase the hundred dollar bills from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where Afghanistan’s wealth, claimed by the Taliban, was being held, then contracted with a company, quite possiblyOsama bin Laden’s old airline, to fly it to Afghanistan, deposit it in banks, allocate it to NGOs and then use DAB to convert the dollars into local Afghan currency.
This Afghan currency was also provided by the United States which funded the printing of 20 billion in Taliban currency by European companies for which the dollars would be exchanged.
“The United States and our partners have been working hard with international banks to facilitate payment transfers from Afghanistan’s central bank to European printing companies,” State Department spokesman Ned Price had told reporters. “This will address one of the aspects of Afghanistan’s ongoing liquidity crisis, consistent with U.S. efforts to support basic human needs.”
Rather than just the ‘foreign aid’ to Afghanistan in the form of the ‘Afghanis’ that it was already arranging to print for the Taliban, the Biden administration sent dollars to them through the UN.
Under the guise of humanitarian needs, $1.7 billion was provided to the UN, which used some of the money to buy dollars to fly into Afghanistan, to trade for Afghan currency, which the U.S. had also arranged to have printed on behalf of the Taliban. The exchange left the Taliban’s DAB terrorist bank with large amounts of U.S. currency that it could auction off to its own allies.
The arrangement is even worse than it sounds because DAB artificially set the exchange rate of the Afghani to the dollar at a far higher rate than the black market exchange rate. And the Taliban bank used the auctions of the dollars to artificially prop up that exchange rate.
USAID’s money laundering scheme not only used the UN to send a fortune in dollars to the Taliban, it allowed their terrorist bank to run a ‘dollar cartel’, buying dollars from the UN through its NGOs at favorable rates and then covertly reselling the dollars back in Pakistan to its ‘dollar cartel’ at much better rates as its rupee struggles against the dollar.
During the intermediate step, DAB held ‘auctions’ of the dollars which elements linked to the Taliban, including the Haqqani network allied with Al Qaeda, reportedly ‘win’. The auctions prop up the Afghani currency and keep the Taliban in power. And the Taliban take their share at each step of the process, taxing all the various intermediaries before finally cashing out the money.
Sending dollars to Afghanistan only to exchange them for Afghanis which the United States was also arranging for served absolutely no purpose except to give the Taliban liquid currency, but was justified as a way to prop up the Afghani currency as a “humanitarian aid” measure.
The money laundering operation required multiple steps and plausible deniability for USAID, the State Department and the UN which insisted that “[n]one of the cash brought into Afghanistan is deposited in the Central Bank of Afghanistan nor provided to the Taliban de facto authorities by the UN.” To the extent this was true, it was because the money was deposited in a “private bank”, allocated to NGOs funded by the UN which then exchanged it with DBA’s assets.
USAID was able to claim plausible deniability because it was putting money into pooled UN accounts, which a report by the SIGAR Afghanistan War government watchdog revealed, “prevents tying humanitarian assistance expenses—including for the purchase and transport of cash into Afghanistan—to a specific donor’s contribution.
Putting the money into UN pooled accounts allowed USAID to claim that they “do not provide assistance to or through the Taliban”, they just put money into “pooled UN accounts” which they do not control, and “as a result, State and USAID do not know how much of their total contributions to the UN have been used to purchase cash for use in Afghanistan”.
The UN deposits the dollars into its accounts in a conveniently unnamed ‘private bank’ in Afghanistan. Its name is surely known to the Taliban authorities, but continues to be unknown to United States officials. From there the money is distributed to the bank accounts of the NGOs funded by the UN. At that point they are most likely converted into Afghanis with DAB’s aid since the supply of the Taliban currency is controlled by Afghanistan’s central bank.
That allows the UN to claim that “[n]one of the cash brought into Afghanistan is deposited in the Central Bank of Afghanistan nor provided to the Taliban de facto authorities by the UN.” The cash is not provided to the Taliban or DAB by the UN, but by the groups funded by the UN.
The SIGAR report noted that “a UN official told us that the UN’s liability ends when the recipient PIO and NGOs have the funds in their accounts.” The UN then disavows any liability for providing the money to the Taliban even as UN officials are well aware that it’s happening.
The State Department responded to these revelations by falsely claiming that there are no sanctions on Afghanistan, that banks refuse to carry out wire transfers because of “the lack of profitability” and that “to the best of our knowledge, no electronic financial delivery systems are currently scalable to meet the liquidity needs of the UN” requiring it to instead convert billions of dollars into paper notes and ship them by plane. None of this is true or even a plausible lie.
USAID declined to reply to the government watchdog’s report.
The Taliban money laundering scheme was not an exception, it was how USAID, the State Department and the UN have operated for too long, not only in Afghanistan, but in Syria, Yemen, Gaza and many other terrorist areas around the world, using plausible deniability and chains of organizations to avoid accountability and direct responsibility for aiding terrorists.
Americans have become the financiers of their worst enemies. It’s time for that to stop.
somehistory says
And a mozlum, arab from egypt, raised in Canada, appointed as a federal judge by traitor biden and rushed through confirmation by the dem devils, has ordered Mr. Trump to resume sending the money to the various groups who have been given billions in American taxpayer money, funding terror and other nefarious programs.
By the name of amir ali…other name tags too, all bowing to islime.
libertyORdeath says
How long will Western countries allow FOREIGN “judges” like Ali or Chutkin of Jamaica to interfere in our native politics?
These judges must be impeached, charged, removed, jailed and for many, even DEPORTED outright. Using the courts to violate the laws on immigration, funding Terrorism, or human trafficking is TREASON, plain and simple.
somehistory says
Yes, it is treason….and the People should have a say in who is appointed to ‘judge’ them.
Rob Porter says
Hopefully, somehistory, Trump will tell this ‘Muslim, Arab from Egypt, raised in Canada Federal judge’ to go to hell and stop all payments to Afghanistan. And regarding “humanitarian aid” to Afghanistan, how pathetic. IED killed more than 1,000 Americans and left hundreds more without legs, so let Muslim countries provide Afghanistan with “humanitarian aid”.
As it is Afghanistan knows nothing about “humanitarian aid”. They are Muslims. They treat females like garbage, deny them education, shoot them dead if not sufficiently covered, stone to death females who are accused of adultery – after being raped or gang-raped – while the rapists go unpunished. That is the sub-human ‘justice’.of Muslims.
What a total sucker country the U.S. has been – with traitors abounding in the State Department and USAID. Supposedly there is going to be vigorous investigation to identify, arrest and severely punish those responsible for giving the enemy tens of millions of dollars. Oh yes, and then the U.S. left about $86 billion worth of military equipment to the enemy. At the very least, upon leaving the U.S. should have carpet bombed wherever this equipment was parked. That it was not demonstrates that it was deliberately left intact for the enemy. More treachery among Americans – and no one is held accountable!
It’s now evident new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, with need to clean out numbers of traitors in the State Department.
Growing up in South Africa, like most of my compatriots I very early developed utter contempt for the United Nations. After the death of Secretary-Genera Dag Hammersjold the U.N. almost entirely went to the dogs. Now dominated by the uncivilized Muslim ‘Organization of Islamic Co-operation’, the UN is a disgusting, treacherous, anti-Western-civilization organization operating in the U.S.. It should be watched like a hawk at every level and thwarted at every turn.
somehistory says
Thank you, Rob.
I have a very good friend who came here from South Africa. Unlike mozlums, he brought integrity, honesty, hard work and kindness with him.
The un is a beast. The many mozlums and those who cater to mozlums, have made it less than worthless; they have put a lot of power in the hands of evil.
I hope Mr. Trump can somehow get around this mozlum ‘judge,’ who has no place on a bench, esp a Federal one.
Tony says
No money or aid should be provided to ANY Muslim country or organization because of Islam’s terrorism, discrimination, and violence against Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran.
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) to fight against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist, Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49, 21:921; 88,111,123;21:92; 49:15 and more).
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous Muslim war, a religious duty, against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS(MTO) for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The most fascinating aspect of this whole USAID saga is that none of the countries ostensibly targeted by USAID have complained even a bit to the US about this funding being revoked. It’s just the Dems in the streets
In Trump’s press conference w/ Modi yesterday, some of the questions that the Indian reporters (who Trump loved 😂) specifically asked him about undoing USAID, particularly given the latter’s history w/ supporting those color revolutions. Reason Ukraine is in a war – root cause was the Orange revolution in Kyiv in 2014 at the Maidan
libertyORdeath says
Shouldn’t this be an easy case for Trump’s team to lock these people up?
They’ve been so brazen that they have been committing crimes out in the open, leaving mountains of evidence.
Sending BILLIONS to designated TERRORIST groups, funding the college tuition of the terrorist Al-Qaeda leader of Syria, and openly running a human trafficking operation are just a few examples.
I pray for the day that their actions and public statements are used to lock them up for YEARS and put this country back on a sensible and patriotic road to prosperity. The only way to prevent this continuing to happen into the future is to make an example of the people who committed these crimes and open acts of TREASON.
crown says
And in back of it all: the Irish-American antisemitic serpent Samantha Power, in charge of US AID. And in back of her… the antichrist-ish Barack Obama.
We dodged a bullet, indeed, when Donald dodged a bullet.
Rob Porter says
Astounding! I had no idea that the evil, stupid-talking leftist, Samantha Power, had any role in USAID. Just consider who appointed her, Barack Obama who long ago should have been imprisoned for his pro-Muslim treachery and actions that undermined the U.S. It’s amazing how many disgusting presidents the U.S. has had over the last few decades. No wonder so many Americans excitedly welcomed the return of Donald Trump.
Westman says
USAID was also funding Boko Haram.
One could be excused for suspecting that the USAID funding of terrorist groups and enemies of the US was planned to keep defense funding flowing through arms manufacturers, Pentagon, Blackwater-like entities, and Congress with actual soldiers serving as cannon fodder and the Air Force expending bombs for remanufacture.
Statler says
No wonder that they wanted Trump dead.
Annemarie says
Why do Western civilizations spend their resources to sustain inimical cultures who would gladly destroy their benefactors? Misplaced altruism? Spending money to supposedly reduce the mortality of people currently living under the totalitarian Taliban regime enables it to train for jihad, expand, subjugate and kill FUTURE populations so the logic of it in evolutionary terms escapes me.
Rob Porter says
Well said, Annemarie. For me Western civilization’s misguided and really stupid benefactors have for decades been a source of amazement and disgust.
After a bad famine in Ethiopia, bleeding heart Western imbeciles then fed that country’s population to a level that the climate and land couldn’t sustains, so now these imbeciles must keep feeding often useless people in order to avoid their starvation. I truly marvel .
John1 says
Not one red cent to Muslim controlled governments. Let the gulf oil countries feed them.
OLD GUY says
Why are our government leaders so willing to fund these organizations? Could it be a money laundry for their personal gain, sure looks like it. STOP sending our tax dollars to foreign countries and definitely not to islamic countries.
Robert says
What a bunch of foolish people we are in the west, we allow our leaders to fund our own demise.
Rob Porter says
Astounding, Robert! I had no idea that the disgusting, stupid-talking leftist, Samantha Power, had any role in USAID. Just consider who appointed her, Barack Obama who long ago should have been imprisoned for his pro-Muslim treachery and actions that undermined the U.S. It’s amazing how many disgusting presidents the U.S. has had over the last few decades. No wonder so many Americans excitedly welcomed the return of Donald Trump.
somehistory says
On a somewhat related topic
“Remember How Pope Francis Is Pro-Illegal Immigrant? Turns Out Catholic Charities Have Taken Billions in Shelter Grants”
From fema, dhs, hhs, hud,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/remember-how-pope-francis-is-pro-illegal-immigrant-turns-out-catholic-charities-have-taken-billions-in-shelter-grants/ar-AA1z9hYZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=3d37b8180ec14b2c961e5942452ab085&ei=5
Mr. Homan’s response:
“U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan gave reporters his response to the pope’s letter.
“He wants to attack us for securing our border? He’s got a wall around the Vatican, does he not?” Homan said.
“So he’s got a wall around that protects his people and himself, but we can’t have a wall around the United States?””