VIDEO: A HARSH LIFE FOR AFGHAN COAL MINERS
McClatchy's Jonathan S. Landay traveled to a coal mine that symbolizes the corruption, nepotism and mismanagement that pervade President Hamid Karzai's government.
VIDEO: THE ROCKY ROAD TO BADAKHSHAN, AFGHANISTAN
McClatchy's Dion Nissenbaum speaks about the difficulty of getting around Afghanistan while on assignment to Badkhshan.
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U.S. keeps funneling money to troubled Afghan projects
McClatchy found that U.S. government funding for at least 15 large-scale programs and projects grew from just over $1 billion to nearly $3 billion despite the government's questions about their effectiveness or cost. Welcome to Afghan aid, American-style. » read more
- · Program to modernize Afghan justice system yields little so far
- · Flawed projects prove costly for Afghanistan, U.S.
- · Factory, coal mine show connections matter most in Afghan business
- · Stung by Senate criticism, auditor of Afghan spending sacks aides
- · Military bans 2 U.S. firms from Afghan contracting
- · U.S. watchdog for Afghanistan contracting resigns
- · Contractor leaves Afghan police stations half-complete
- · U.S. hires firms with questionable pasts for Afghan jobs
AFGHAN CONTRACTING
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McClatchy reporters working in Afghanistan and Washington identified nearly $200 million in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects that have failed, face serious delays or resulted in subpar work, hindering Obama administration hopes of improving the lives of Afghans and succeeding in the fight against the Taliban. The reporters found that oversight by U.S. officials is so flawed that a vast majority of the companies that do shoddy work haven't been banned from getting new U.S. contracts. They also found that political influence by the Afghan elite, and not business competency, was behind the development of two major national assets in Afghanistan: a coal mine and cement factory.
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