Thursday, July 18, 2013

Extortion Afghan Style

Afghanistan will not let our trucks carrying military equipment either in or out of the country unless we pay them $1,000 per truck.  Furthermore, the Afghans hope to collect nearly $1 billion in business taxes and fines from U.S. contractors. They claim “It’s a compliance issue, and they’re not complying with our laws.”

As a result, we are flying out much more of our equipment than we had planned.  Naturally, our costs of leaving the country will be higher than planned.

1 comment:

Jedd said...

Must be their way of saying "thank you." We should pay their bill and then send them one of our own.