Ex-Afghan Prez Ashraf Ghani Took $110 Million From Qatar To Not Resist Taliban: Report

"If I had stayed, I would be witnessing bloodshed in Kabul,” Ashraf Ghani had said in a on a Facebook stream after fleeing.

Ashraf Ghani, the former President of Afghanistan, accepted over $112 million from Qatar 'to not resist' the Taliban, Italian public broadcasting service (RAI) reported in its TJ 1 newscast. Ghani, an Afghan President who enjoyed US support, left Kabul as Taliban approached the Afghanistan capital on August 15, 2021. The report says Ashraf Ghani's envoy Ajmal Ahmadi, former president of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, received $114 million and $27 million to surrender to the Taliban. The sum was handed over by Majid Al-Qahtani, a representative of Qatar, the report says.

Al-Qahtani, special envoy for the foreign minister of Qatar (for counterterrorism and mediation of conflict) was reported to be in Kabul just five weeks before Asraf Ghani fled in a helicopter 'full of cash'. The report further says that Al-Qahtani met Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace in person and held a dialogue about Taliban seizing control of Afghan territories.

I worked in Kandahar, Afghanistan, for KBR (Halliburton subsidiary)- at a concrete batch plant. I was hired as a carpenter but with my skill sets, I was placed into a quality control position at the batch plant.

Some days, I would accompany an Indian citizen (third country national) to the finance office. Because I was an American, with a CAC card (all access) I could escort the individual through the inner perimeter gate, without the individual having to undergo a body search/pat down. I was good with the person, security wise, as I worked day in and day out with the person at a concrete batch plate that produced concrete for my company and the occupying forces which were the United States and all of its coalition (16) partners.

The individual- Thiagarajan, would go to the US Army’s Finance bldg. and turn in invoices for the amount of concrete that the batch plant had produced for various projects on the base, the previous week. The payout was, on the average- half a million dollars.

The finance building was a very stout constructed structure, much like any bank in the USA. Armed soldiers were everywhere. Inside, there was a dark room to one side, with money stacked up like bales of hay.

FWIW- A million dollars takes up less space than the size of an average microwave.

Anyway, the point of my story is- that money was plentiful and flowed like honey. The concrete plant would lose the manager every single time that the manager would go home on leave, because the company would accuse the manager of theft, because there was so much money flowing, that the batch plant manager at the time, could not resist the temptation to steal some of the cash that he possessed.

Money was stacked up like hay- literally... ten feet high, multiple pallets wide and many deeper in another direction, equaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

On one occasion, I passed a man walking down the road, in my vehicle, that had helped me get the job that he once held, and I held out an athletic bag to him, that was half hot pink and half black. I asked him what he thought was in the bag. He replied- whiskey. I said nope, it’s about half a million dollars. All brand spanking new 50 dollar bills in a plastic wrap and about the equivalent of two household toasters in size.

Sadly, what I am describing is the grotesque largesse of the Military Industrial Complex, to which I was once a dupe.

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