C.I.A. Funds Found Their Way Into Qaeda Coffers

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14. CIA teamed up with war lords & drug traffickers very early on

Even the Pentagon admitted this was the primary cause of the corruption problems plaguing Afghanistan in addition to contracts, with US contractors often leaving projects unfinished but still paid for it all-the-same. Also, there is a profitable bribe industry in both Afghanistan & Iraq giving businesses contracts to provide numerous things. Some Army majors & a colonel got in the same racket in Kuwait, one of with notes logging up to $30 million in bribes convinced his wife to move to Kuwait because of how much more money she'd make than she would as a school teacher stateside. Soon enough, someone with "suitcases full of cash" dropped them off at her hotel.

Unlike contractors the US military has a criminal justice system inside itself with an independent CID (like IA but much more effective) who caught them and 3 of them killed themselves, often times you see higher ranks (but not too much of the 3 star category) facing criminal charges for something overseas, odds are there were contractors doing the same thing or it was a joint enterprise but the contractors have all the perks without being punished for not being clean shaven or being sentenced to a senseless detail.