Home Title Index Topic Index Sources Directory News Releases Sources Calendar

US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops

Ryan, Tim
http://www.courthousenews.com/us-contractors-accused-of-funding-taliban-attacks-against-american-troops/

Publisher:  Courthouse News
Date Written:  29/12/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

On lawsuit filed by military personnel against group of companies, alleging funding attacks on Americans by making protection payments to Taliban.

Abstract: 
-

Excerpt:

400 people who were either wounded while serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan or are family members of service members who died in the conflict sued a group of companies on Friday they say helped fund attacks against Americans by making protection payments to the Taliban.

"Defendants supported the Taliban for a simple reason: Defendants were all large Western companies with lucrative businesses in post-9/11 Afghanistan, and they all paid the Taliban to refrain from attacking their busness interests," the 288-page complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Friday states. "Those protection payments aded and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans."

Topics
Sources-journalists use the sources website to find you


AlterLinks
c/o Sources


© 2023.