Monday, December 31, 2012

As U.S. Forces Leave Afghanistan, Locals Demand Rent Money


Afghans Angry At US soldiers Who Drove Away In The Night Leaving Rent Unpaid -- The Guardian

Only sign of huge US base is pile of rubbish and broken vehicles – and a festering land dispute in a volatile province

US forces left behind piles of equipment, an unpaid rent bill and a festering land dispute that threatens to undermine the Afghan government when they moved out of a volatile corner of eastern Kunar province this year, local officials and their former landlords say.

The only clue that a base that dominated Pashengar village for years had been abandoned for good was the midnight rumble of a convoy of trucks. In the morning, locals found guards gone, buildings blown up and, scattered around what had been a forbidding military encampment, piles of detritus from years of western living in a remote, mountainous valley.

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My Comment: More evidence that the U.S. and NATO are leaving, and everyone scrambling to grab as much money as possible.

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