As much as $10 million a day in cash is being smuggled through the Kabul airport, according to the U.S. Special Inspector General's report on Afghan reconstruction.
Time's Mark Benjamin reports that most of that cash is simply carried out in suitcases.
President Hamid Karzai is barring U.S. officials from the Afghan central bank, so monitoring where the money goes has proven difficult. Karzai has also refused to allow the U.S. to examine the bags of outgoing officials through the Kabul airport, in fact banning the U.S. entirely from the VIP section of the terminal.
All that money adds up. More...
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Time's Mark Benjamin reports that most of that cash is simply carried out in suitcases.
President Hamid Karzai is barring U.S. officials from the Afghan central bank, so monitoring where the money goes has proven difficult. Karzai has also refused to allow the U.S. to examine the bags of outgoing officials through the Kabul airport, in fact banning the U.S. entirely from the VIP section of the terminal.
All that money adds up. More...
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