Hamid Karzai Government Under Fire For Oil Deal With Company Run By Cousin -- The TelegraphAnti-corruption campaigners and diplomats have challenged Hamid Karzai's government for awarding a $3bn oil deal to a company run by a cousin who was jailed in the United States for drug trafficking.
Watan Oil and Gas, controlled by President Karzai's notorious cousins Rashid and Rateb Popal, won the oil extraction contract in a joint venture with a Chinese state-owned firm despite accusations another of their companies used US funds to pay protection money to Taliban commanders.
The 25-year deal gives Watan and the China National Petroleum Company access to an estimated 160 million barrels of oil from three fields in northern Afghanistan.
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My Comment: They are not even interested in stealing a few thousand .... or a few million .... what they want is billions.
I am so "fed-up" with this war.
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