Imagine the number of armed security forces required to keep the terrorists away from the mines.
This is old news (known for many years). See this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2534375/posts
But the Afghan constitution, which was written in a smoke filled room in Germany in December of 2001, makes all oil and minerals the property of all the people. That communist clause precluding private property in oil and minerals will always retard or prevent the development of a viable oil and mineral sector.
If it wasn’t for the religion of barbarianism they might of found and ‘exploited’ the lands years ago.
Call me cynical, but mining in an area filled with people willing to blow themselves up for... well, nothing really doesn’t seem like an optimistic endeavor. Good news is there are plenty of folks used to working with explosives in the area.
I doubt the Army or any agency of the US government has any notion of either how much is there, or if it is commercially or politically recoverable. There are reasons diamond mines are built out in the middle of nowhere, in Canada, above the Arctic Circle, and not in Afghanistan. I’m sure we all can guess a few good reasons why.
This should help finance even more jihadi terrorism!
And we’re preparing to abandon Afghanistan. Slick move.
They could make more selling the organs of the school children they kill.
Too bad Obama doesn’t have the nads to confiscate ownership of the mineral rights as punishment for their harboring of AQ.