USAID’s Taliban Money Laundering Scheme

FrontPage Magazine ^ | Feb 13 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

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In 2022, the DA Afghanistan Bank showed off photos of $40 million in stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. The Taliban controlled central bank described this as one of three shipments of “humanitarian aid” amounting to over $100 million.

DAB, Afghanistan’s central bank, was headed by Noor Ahmad Agha, a “specially designated terrorist” who had been named as the “financier of bomb-making”, including the IEDs which had killed over 1,000 American soldiers, and sending money to a sanctioned figure was illegal.

Despite that someone had sent a massive fortune in U.S. cash to the Taliban’s terror bank.

While no international organization was willing to admit to the cash-smuggling operation, the ultimate responsibility lay with USAID. The $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan.

The cash had to be physically shipped because it was illegal for U.S. banks to provide it to the Taliban. USAID was helping finance an illegal operation to circumvent sanctions on terrorists.

When the State Department and USAID claimed that they “do not provide assistance to or through the Taliban” but work “with trusted international partners with extensive experience working in challenging environments like Afghanistan”, it was a half-truth at best.

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The “trusted international partners” included the UN. USAID funded the UN which used an intermediary to purchase the hundred dollar bills from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where Afghanistan’s wealth, claimed by the Taliban, was being held, then contracted with a company, quite possibly Osama bin Laden’s old airline, to fly it to Afghanistan, deposit it in banks, allocate it to NGOs and then use DAB to convert the dollars into local Afghan currency.

This Afghan currency was also provided by the United States which funded the printing of 20 billion in Taliban currency by European companies for which the dollars would be exchanged.

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

Bags of hundred dollar bills traded through a terrorist bank.

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[BobL]

Assuming that pictures exist, this could be the Commercial of the Century - something that totally FLIPS THE SCRIPT on USAID and the rest of the crap being done by Democrats.

[hardspunned]

I guarantee the head chopping terrorist we placed in control of Syria was financed the same way. The most difficult thing for Trump will be getting rid of that CIA created monster in Syria.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Money Laundering Scheme"

For the corrupt Obama-Biden-Power team and their "fundamental transformation" of this nation, "humanitarian" is a word quite like vegetarian. It is about nourishment. For the Deep State and its clients.

[Palio di Siena]

Cruise missle - taliban bank

[yldstrk]

Maddening.

[Made In The USA]

How can the IRS ask for anything from us when billions are being wasted, corruption is neck deep, and fraud was the norm?

[LouAvul]

Given the above, during the abominable O'Scumbag and pedo Joe years, America was the #1 terrorist organization on earth. And people think the debacle that was biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan was mere incompetence.

It accomplished exactly what (whoever was running O'Scummy and joe) wanted to accomplish. Nothing is by accident. RATs are synonymous with demonic.

[Lurker]

Every single government drone who so much as touched these transactions needs to be prosecuted.

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[JohnBovenmyer]

Said pictures found within this tweet, found by chasing links within the source:

https://x.com/AFGCentralbank/status/1597463240027832321

[Tom Tetroxide]

Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtXQNDJJm4

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Thank you!

An interesting video.

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From the link:

[Salman]

Not just a question of waste and mismanagement. Or even outright stealing (though there was plenty of that).

USAID was financing terrorism.

The Democratic Party is a terrorist outfit, and we ought to approach it as such.

[GOPJ]

In 2022, the DA Afghanistan Bank showed off photos of $40 million in stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. The Taliban controlled central bank described this as one of three shipments of “humanitarian aid” amounting to over $100 million. While no international organization was willing to admit to the cash-smuggling operation, the ultimate responsibility lay with USAID. The $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan. The cash had to be physically shipped because it was illegal for U.S. banks to provide it to the Taliban. USAID was helping finance an illegal operation to circumvent sanctions on terrorists.

Will the gullible stupid idiots over at CNN and MSNBC understand this? It ain't ONE Sesame Street show... Hey Michael Smerconish check out how your audience on this one...

[UnwashedPeasant]

There is a reason USAID was led by Samantha Power, a key member of the Obama insider team.

[ridesthemiles]

MASSIVE PICS OF THIS KIND OF WASTE MUST BE SHOWN TO AMERICANS.

[gitmo]

I had forgotten about those pallets of US dollars shipped to the Taliban.

US taxpayers have been royally screwed for decades.

[Vendome]

Movies will be made about this crap with varying themes