Thousands of cars and trucks we’ve supplied have been sold instead…… gee, wonder who’s buying them???

CAIRO - Up to half of all foreign aid allocated to help improve deplorable living standards of ordinary people in war-torn Afghanistan has been siphoned off by corrupt government officials and tribal leaders, The Sunday Telegraph reported on January 28.

“There is increasing corruption from top government officials down, which is making efforts to get reconstruction off the ground much more difficult,” UK Shadow Defense Secretary Liam Fox told the paper.

Fox, an MP for Woodspring, said he heard first-had of the cancerous corruption when he visited the country last summer.

Sergeant Major Denis Tondreau, in charge of delivering Canadian army aid to the Pashmul area, said Afghan police unit in one village was notorious for corruption.

“I have been told that if I bring aid to Pasab the police will steal it,” he said.

“They are just a bad, bad unit… extortion, corruption and use of drugs.”

A Pentagon official told the British paper that thousands of cars and trucks intended for use by the Afghan police had been sold instead.

The aid, in best-case scenarios, is shifted to areas other than the ones it was allocated to.

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