U.S. Army $1 Billion Afghan Trucking Plan Aims to End ‘Racket’
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The U.S. Army tomorrow will begin using a $1 billion trucking contract in Afghanistan with new safeguards designed to prevent the funneling of millions of dollars in protection money to warlords.
The adoption of the new National Afghan Trucking contract, between the Army and 20 local trucking companies, will be used by the U.S. military to transport supplies through the war-torn country. It comes more than a year after a congressional investigation uncovered what its chief author described as a “vast protection racket” in which contractors were forced to pay warlords and insurgents to obtain safe passage.