As the Taliban were taking over Afghanistan, I predicted that Biden would fund the Taliban using “humanitarian aid” as a pretext. Since then, Biden has provided $1.1 billion in Afghan aid.
Despite assurances that the money would not go to the terrorists, the Biden administration issued global licenses authorizing financial transactions with the Taliban and the Al Qaeda allied Haqqani Network that include the “delivery and provision of humanitarian aid”.
Biden looted $3.5 billion from money awarded to the families of 9/11 victims in a lawsuit against the Taliban and put in a “trust fund” to provide “humanitarian aid”. His DOJ then went to court arguing that the judgment for the victims was too large and that it interfered with the Biden administration’s foreign policy in Afghanistan.
Now an Australian Broadcasting Corporation report has revealed massive stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. ABC noted that “the picture is just one of several images of United States $100 notes boxed, bagged, or bound in plastic, posted on Twitter by the Taliban-controlled central bank of Afghanistan in recent weeks.”
ABC quoted an expert who suggested that there was a lot more than $40 million in the shipment.
“Especially on the runway, it may have been hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said.
A day earlier the bank had announced that it “wants to auction up to (14) million US dollars”.
The purpose of such dollar auctions is to stabilize the value of the ‘Afghani’, the country’s currency, against the dollar. The “humanitarian aid” here appears to consist of millions of dollars being shipped into a terrorist state to prop up its otherwise worthless currency.
The bank claims to have received “humanitarian aid” of $40 million in hundred dollar bills. And the bank described it as the second shipment of cash that had arrived in one week.
Overall this is the third such shipment amounting to $120 million.
The exact origin of the money is unclear, but the packaging is in English and that together with the currency, suggests that it’s either being sent by the Biden administration or with its consent.
A previous shipment of $40 million in August showed bags of cash being flown in through Ariana Afghan Airlines, which had been used to fly Al Qaeda terrorists, drugs and guns, but has been subsidized to charter hostage evacuation flights by the Biden administration.
In the intervening months it has yet to be clarified where all this cash is actually coming from.
The one thing that is abundantly clear is that the concept of humanitarian aid has been perverted into massive shipments of money into terrorist zones, in violation of sanctions, without even the pretense that the money is buying food, medicine or anything we associate with aid.
Propping up Afghanistan’s economy by providing it with a ready supply of cash has been reinterpreted as humanitarian aid when it’s actually foreign aid. But the Biden administration does not want to admit that it’s providing terrorists with massive amounts of foreign aid.
There’s nothing that Biden won’t do for the Taliban that he won’t classify as humanitarian aid.
In November, Front Page Magazine exclusively revealed that the Biden administration had been working to enable the Taliban to print money. The Biden administration admitted that it was “working hard with international banks to facilitate payment transfers from Afghanistan’s central bank to European printing companies where new banknotes would actually be produced” to “replace what had been crumbling banknotes in Afghanistan.”
What else is the Biden administration moving to the Taliban?
Not only Front Page Magazine or members of Congress, but even the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction can’t get any answers.
The State Department and Samantha Power’s USAID have gone so far as to order their personnel to refuse to cooperate with audits of their Afghanistan spending. State and USAID stonewalled the inspector general’s office, refusing to reveal “funding information regarding its ongoing programs in Afghanistan, citing ongoing consultation with its legal counsel”.
The special inspector general’s office revealed that USAID and the Treasury Department “refused to cooperate… in any capacity.”
In December, Rep. McCaul sent yet another letter to Secretary of State Blinken, Power and Treasury Secretary Yellen, warning that their refusal to cooperate with the special inspector general’s office “is a flagrant violation of the law and part of a lengthy pattern of obstruction by the Biden Administration” .
One of the stonewalled audits, according to a letter from the inspector general’s office to Samantha Power, “evaluates your agencies’ compliance with the laws and regulations prohibiting transfers of funds to members of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network.”
If USAID were in compliance with laws on transferring money to terrorists, it wouldn’t be refusing to cooperate with an audit. Every new revelation about the terror cash pipeline makes the administration look worse. The latest Afghanistan watchdog report strongly suggested that the Taliban had gotten access to $57 million sent to the Afghan government before the fall.
“Once the money was transferred, US agencies lost visibility over those funds and relied on the Afghan government to disburse funds for their intended purposes,” the report warned.
But that $57 million pales in comparison to the over $1 billion in Afghanistan aid.
As bad as Biden’s retreat was, the aftermath is even more troubling. The Biden administration has robbed 9/11 families to fund terrorists. It’s stonewalling an inspector general within the federal government while moving massive amounts of money into a terrorist state.
All of this is happening even as the Taliban are openly using sharia punishments and abusing women. The myth of a kinder, gentler Taliban has fallen apart, but the money keeps coming.
And that’s not all.
A “high-level delegation” that included a top CIA figure met with the Taliban and agreed not to “fund any armed groups or non-state actors in the country”, particularly the Northern Alliance members who had originally helped us liberate Afghanistan.
What if anything have the Taliban offered in exchange for agreeing to betray our allies?
That’s one of the many unanswered questions about what Biden is doing in Afghanistan. The disastrous retreat could look like a comedy of errors, but it’s looking less accidental all the time.
An explosive conclusion to be drawn from its aftermath is that the Biden administration had set out to enable a Taliban takeover and then to prop it up using financial, military and political mechanisms. The stonewalling and the cover-ups, which include trying to classify every substantive congressional briefing, paint a much darker picture about a hidden agenda.
Over a decade ago, Obama set out to topple most of our allies in the Middle East and replace their governments with brutal Islamist tyrannies dedicated to the same values as the Taliban.
His old staffers appear to be continuing Obama’s work in Afghanistan.
When you refer to events “over a decade ago”, you are referring to the Arab Spring, right?
And your analysis of those events is that Obama “set out to topple” our allies and “replace them with brutal Islamist tyrannies.”
This accusation is so preposterous, and in such bad faith, that it betrays you (once again) asan unserious hack.
The irony is that there is something happening with all that money going to Afghanistan. Something serious, important, and therefore complex and worthy of critical analysis. But you refuse to approach politics, national and global, in this way. You would rather filter everything through your infantile worldview. You commit the exact sin you accuse your enemies of committing. And, as is your custom, you expect your readers not to notice.
At least the cash bricks weren’t stacked on pallets. One would think that the $billions in military hardware was generous enough.
Our enemies were right to celebrate the outcome of a rigged election; Sleazy Joe is currently exceeding everything they’ve expected of him, and more.
You’ve gotta give Biden credit, he’s overperforming Obama
Thanks Dan but I must disagree on Biden’s out performing the O Admin.
I believe with no proof of course, that Pres O is pulling the strings behind the scenes, as he jokingly said he would like to do, from his house in his sweats (if memory serves) calling the shots and staying out of the limelight.
Not sure what our current Pres is capable of…?
What do you think Dan.
it’s the same people behind Biden as were behind Obama, and in some cases even worse
Obama is not some sort of evil genius, he was an affirmative action mediocrity with a certain amount of charm
much like Bill Clinton was not a genius, he was a crooked leftist fraud with no self-control
it’s the people behind the scenes who prop them up to implement the leftist agenda
Valerie Jarrett, avowed Jihadist, has been doing the heavy lifting all along. Remember Obama dancing all night “…like we’ve never seen him before” at his 60th birthday party?
It’s because he had received the news about the coming withdrawal gifting the Taliban (ultimately Iran and ISIS, too) all the hardware, then $$$.
Obama IS the one driving this wreckage , Biden is merely his compliant pupprt.
Why am I thinking, he IS Obama? This is B. Hussein’s 3rd term and the 3rd and final installment of ‘Fundamental Transformation.’
Stores used to get suspicious when you paid with a $100 bill. Now they take it for granted. Inflation.
Pretty soon they will have to bring back the $500 bill, the $1000 bill …
Paying with a $1,000 bill for a gallon of milk, just like every banana republic.
That’s a negative Ghost Rider.
The Gov’t will digitize our currency, so that if conservatives stage a GENUINELY peaceful protest, the *Biden handlers can freeze/seize their bank accounts.
YES, OBAMA did the same but TO IRAN which only wanted to wipe Israel, and The Great Satan, off the map. HE GOT AWAY WITH IT… AND SO WILL JOE! WHY? CORRUPTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS. The MSM is also part of the Conspiracy of Silence. (Remember Obama invited top MSM hosts, even Juan Williams from Fox, only because Juan is Black and then him crying when Obama got elected. They coordinated Soviet style disinformation and propaganda that continues to this day. Then the JournOlists and Media Matters.)
Iran surely used those funds to build IED’s THAT MAIMED AND KILLED AMERICANS! Let’s add monies for to build rockets then given to HAMAS and HEZBOLLAH to rain on Israel, plus to pay suicide bombers! How many Iran connected terrorist groups around the world are being funded with Obama’s cash? Sleeper cells in the US?
How much of the military equipment FJB left in Afghanistan is being sold… hopefully used for humanitarian aid for the people? LOL!
Still so mind-blowing that our once-great country is now run by people, like Samantha Power, who literally hate their own country.
Is it her own country? She is a immigrant from Ireland.
true, though she probably also hates Ireland and certainly all of Europe
There can be no compromise on basic principles. A proper, moral, and legitimate government rests on the principle that it exists to defend the individual. Which means the defense on individual rights and private property rights.
But once a government begins to operate on the principle of altruism and sacrifice, that it is moral to steal just one penny (it’s only one penny) from Paul to give to Peter because Peter is in need, all bets are off, the rest is just a matter of time.
“Since there is no such entity as “the public,” since the public is merely a number of individuals, any claimed or implied conflict of “the public interest” with private interests means that the interests of some men are to be sacrificed to the interests and wishes of others. Since the concept is so conveniently undefinable, its use rests only on any given gang’s ability to proclaim that “The public, c’est moi”—and to maintain the claim at the point of a gun.” – Ayn Rand
Hence, the CONstitution was a must for “the interests of some men”. The Articles of Confederation had to be done away with because they were a burden to “the interests of some men”.
This maladministration is a disgrace. As bad as giving the Taliban money is, what to me is worse is its refusal to cooperate with an audit. Those funds aren’t Biden’s. They are the taxpayers’ funds and they have a right to know how they are being spent and whether the expedited are even legal. More banana republic garbage.
and there’s zero accountability
Biden’s cronies violate federal law and there are no meaningful consequences
whereas the Left always finds an angle to criminalize conservatives
And those $100 bills will come back to the USA to the pockets of the sleeper cell terrorists here.
that’s the gift with purchase
they want Islamic terrorism in this country so they have more cause to appease the enemy
And impose more control on us in the interest of “safety”.
We need stamina.
The assault on us is so evil, so overwhelming. How can we abide a president seizing money awarded to plaintiffs in a lawsuit against a country unashamedly devoted to our destruction? How is this overreach even possible? To say nothing of the many and various other assaults mentioned in this article.
I sometimes must take a break from reading Mr. Greenfield because it so deeply affects me. I cannot image how he continues to write, but the fact that he does gives me hope and resolve. Thank you, Mr. Greenfield, for your persistent and unwavering dedication to writing and speaking the truth.
I’ve thought about that too. Writing articles about today’s state of American affairs is like being a cesspool technician that has to go into several cesspools every day to report on how much rot is in the cesspool.
I get depressed all the time reading these articles. Sometimes I think I should just stop for the sake of keeping my mood sunny and cheerful, or at least serene. But then I say to myself, isn’t that like sticking your head in the sand? But then I say to myself, what’s the point anyway, you’re not going to save America with some comments on a comment board.
The only thing I can say is while we’re alive and choose to live we are obligated to do what a living organism does, which is strive to go on living.
it is depressing, what keeps me going is the conviction that the only way anything will change is if people know the truth
on the other hand, hardly anyone, even on the right, talks about Biden’s seizure of funds from 9/11 families
it’s incredible how little people care
Thanks Daniel, your articles cheer me up 🙂
I guess because I am so cynical already that what you write doesn’t surprise me, rather it cheers me up to see your points articulated so well, whereas I can only murkily see them through the haze when I think about it on my own.
And about the only way to get these problems solved is to get them before the public, and move the Overton Window, or whatever. I think there has already been some movement.
Also they help to correct my many mistakes.
thank you, yes it’s impossible to do this for so long without becoming rather cynical
Americans voted for this? They deserve everything they get.
Not that many people.
Mail-in ballots were shot out in all directions like confetti outta canon.
“2000 Mules” demonstrated how drop-boxes were illegally stuffed like Thanksgiving turkeys by *Biden’s most inclusive & expansive “voter fraud system in history”.
What’s that word for aiding and abetting avowed enemies…?
Empowering sharia-compliant and communist monsters for decades.
Funding t he enemy and calling it Humanitarian Aid how else will Biden do to aid and abet this crime aainst the American People and with the M.S. Media covering up his misdeeds
So where exactly did the money come from? I’d like to know whether Congress funded it with our tax dollars, or the Open Society Foundation, or the Gates Foundation, or the Clinton Foundation.
a bunch of it comes from the Afghan banking reserves being stored in the U.S., which were financed with our foreign aid to begin with
IMAGINE WHAT JOHN BRENNAN, A MUSLIM was doing to aid and abet his Muslim Brothers with directions from his Muslim President!
That scoundrel and treasonous villain ,Joe Biden, wants to send $1.1 billions of the American taxpayer money to support and uphold that horrific and hostile Taliban regime in Afghanistan .
Its been rightly said that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.” So the ‘excuse ” of Biden and his administration is the guise that all that money will be used aid the poverty stricken people of Afghanistan.
That’s a obvious falsehood because the thieving Taliban will take what they want for themselves and the rest of aid money they will use ti further strengthen their horrific tyrannical repressive Islamic regime.
If Biden really cared about the people of Afghanistan he wouldn’t have abandoned them to the bloodthirsty vicious murderous Taliban in his very first year in Office.
Joe Biden is a horrendously evil and dangerous villain ofthe very most destructive sort, This he has proven, repeatedly , by his awful and wicked orders and actions,
this is what the Left always does
it claims to have compassion for those it destroys because what it actually loves is evil
…and the power to wield it.
The CIA created the Taliban. It is now being funded out in the open like all the other evil programs that are being laid upon us at our expense.
One of the first orders of business in the new GOP-majority House mus be to call for hearings on this outrageous transfer of public money. If funding terrorism is not an impeachable offense, I would like to know what is.
and the stonewalling of the Afghan watchdog which is a violation of federal law
let’s see the Biden administration take this to the courts
If this doesn’t take place, we can kiss America goodbye!
GET THE PEOPLE AND THE SERVICE DOGS WHO WERE ABANDONED IN AFGHANISTAN BACK!!
At least force that in exchange for the next payment.
Th Biden administration ABANDONED them on that horrible day. GET THEM BACK!!!!! The Taliban torture dogs before they kill them.
We couldn’t have a More Effective ENEMY than Joe”Bite Me”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Biden serves evil, is evil and his actions are in keeping with his vile persona, maybe
trying to suck up to Satan for a nice spot in hell.
Joe Biden by sending all that :aid: money to the Taliban is helping them further oppress and abuse the women in Afghanistan,
The misogynistic Taliban is based under the tyranny of the misogyny of Sharia, which gives females, both girls and women, very little to no basic human rights at all.
Therefore about Sharia law, it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia law is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started.
Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam with its Sharia Therefore Islam with its Sharia law are a hoax.
Joe Biden is the stooge and tool of the Taliban . As observed by that so called “humanitarian aid” hoax for the poor Afghan people that they will never receive because the thieving Taliban will take for themselves.
In this interview with Robert Spencer the host that make mention that the Taliban is now in possession of “advanced weapons” with is because of that awful and sinister Joe Biden.
Joe Biden created the disaster in Afghanistan which resulted in those high quality US military weapons now being in the sinister Islamic hands of the Taliban actually occurred because of Biden and his awful orders about withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way
The US military equipment and arms being obtained by the enemy, the Taliban, is because of that other enemy of America, Joe Biden.
Furthermore those thieving Taliban are using US military trucks and other American equipment they has stolen for furthering their brutal cruel harsh Islamic oppression of Sharia law on the people of Afghanistan who trapped and force to exist in the land that they have taken over.
This wasn’t what so many American soldiers had died and many are maimed for life for.
This is worse the sad, terrible tragic. It all comes down to fault of and blame of that death cult of a religion which is Islam.
When a Taliban spokesman in referring to the question of the basic human rights of females, both girls and women, he declared,” We guarantee all their rights within the limits of Islam.”
All aware people who understand Islam know that the last four words of that statement has an obvious meaning.
Which is that with Islam the rights of females are very limited. As in within the Islamic view, they have little to no rights at all. .
As this has been so well explained by Brigitte Gabriel in her book, entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED in Chapter 9 of the title “Islam’s Contempt for Women” which informs its reader on page 171 “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.”
In addition, on the next page it further reads” Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
Joe Biden by sending the Taliban $1.1 billion of the American taxpayers money is supporting that Taliban regime of brutal misogyny.
Which shows just how committed the Dems are to feminism. Or gay rights.
The commitment is to compel unthinking submission. Thinking disqualifies anyone without regard to identity,
Why not just give the Taliban one of our new Central Bank Digital Currency cards? That way we can follow every move they make.
Rejection of spiritual light brings darkness. This last three generations of Americans have rejected spiritual light and truth beginning about 1965 and now the darkness has come in just 55 years later. And it is not going to change. Your only hope is to trust God now to remove you from earth before the AntiChrist is revealed and the hell of the last 3 and 1/2 years of the Great Tribulation.
The future is spelled out to be known. If you want to know your future then read the book of Revelation in the Bible.
I wish this old fart would hurry up and die.
Those bloodthirsty vicious Muslims who make up the Taliban with their evil mindset and behavior are nothing new or original. Such malicious monsters have been around as far back as far as to ancient times.
For as the Bible informs it’s reader about fiends “inventors of evil things..” Romans 1:30. [K.J.V.] In those ancient days gone by there were inventors of cruel and deadly devices called “booby traps.” made out of this such as sharp wooden spikes.
Now in modern times the fiends who are the Taliban make cruel and deadly booby traps called “Improvised Explosive Devices” that are made out of gun powder scrap metal, nails and other terrible things.
Furthermore, the next verse, 31, also rather fits the horrendous characters of the Taliban, Which reads “Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.”
These horrific fiends who make up the Taliban are the villains that Joe Biden has every intention of supporting by sending them $ 1.1 billion . This must mean that pseudo -“President” Biden is just as evil as they are.