Posted on 12/23/2009 1:48:52 AM PST by Cindy
Blog:
"Report: Taliban, Not Government, Collecting Payments For Electricity Bills From Consumers In Helmand Province"
SNIPPET: "The Taliban militants, not the Afghan government, are collecting payments from consumers of electricity generated from the Kajaki hydroelectric power project in the country’s southern Helmand province, according to an Afghan news website."
SNIPPET: "Haji Mullah Sharafuddin, the administrative head of the Kajaki district, the Taliban have been usurping the state’s right to receive income from the huge dam in the form of bills in the Kajaki, Sangin and Zamindar districts."
SNIPPET: "The Kajaki dam generates 32 megawatts of electricity, supplied not only to the Helmand districts but also to the neighboring Kandahar province, the Taliban's birthplace."
(Excerpt) Read more at thememriblog.org ...
ping
The simple solution - no payment = no power.
how many more congressional Republicans
need to lose,
until this stops?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8412602.stm
“But we can’t move in the large quantity of cement and aggregate that we need in a point of time; we need a sustained effort.”
The Chinese company contracted to install the turbine had left overnight for security reasons and the agency had not been able to find another sub-contractor to do the work, Mr Smith-Screen said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajaki_Dam
Despite the turbine being delivered, as of December 2009, it has not been installed as its installation will require 900 tonnes of cement which cannot be delivered to the dam due to attacks by the Taliban.
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Seems like the Taliban have the upper-hand atm.
Thanks for sharing this article Irenic.
But don’t forget, the Taliban are now our friends and Bambi wants to bring them “back into the fold.”
If anybody wants to see a truly chilling portrait of this band of extortionist religious fanatic loonies, rent the movie “Osama” from Netflix and see the glories of life under the Taliban. It was the first movie made in Afghanistan after we had liberated large areas from Taliban control.
Or one can look right here on FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/taleban/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/taliban/index
and for all jihad-related stuff:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad/index
Is anyone surprised that, on top of everything else, the Taliban are thieves?
I can't help but wonder what Afghanistan would be like today if Pakistan hadn't been so corrupt.
That would be nice.
No.
It’s all part of terrorist financing — like the ransoms for hostages.
I agree.
They cross back and forth so often that to me, at times; it seems like one big country.
Who is collecting the opium crop for export?
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