Nearly eight hundred billion dollars has gone into military operations in Afghanistan. The US Congress has sponsored this. A hundred and thirteen billion has gone into reconstruction. But has the US Congress unwittingly sponsored contract fraud? Among the people who have benefited fraudulently is the man called Tony Abi Saab who made profits of 5 million dollars, which he enriched himself with.A war thus waged as much by for-profit war mongers such has Tony Abi Saab of Brescia Middle East as by other contracts.To minimise the number of deaths in the US Army active in Afghanistan, the military outsourced its tasks: maintenance, cooking and laundry, overland logistics, even security. Since 2007, there are more contractors than U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Today, they outnumber them three to one. The result has been corruption. After a House committee investigations, a system was fuelled by a vast protection racket run by a shadowy network of warlords, strongmen, commanders, corrupt Afghan officials, and perhaps others. The report's conclusion was that protection payments were made for a safe passage in Afghanistan.Several of Tony Abi Saab's companies have been cited in these reports such as Tactical Ltd Afghanistan, K5 Global and Bennet-Fouch, G2Armory, SIMAINT. Tony Abi Saab is not confined to these companies but also operates a network of shadow companies such as in Italy: ARMERIA AMELIO GAMBA Srl, INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A., Benelli Armi, franchi division, Fiocchi munizione, Armeria brignoli Silvio & c snc , BLS Germany: Umarex gmbh & co KG France: Noble france sa Turkey: Osmanli Arms, ISTANBUL and KONYA, KOMANDO AV SAN TIC LTD, ATA Av tufekleri Bangladesh: Emran arms, East Europe and Russia: Kula Ltd., Tiblisi - Georgia, LOBASTOV IVAN, Baikal Ltd, Izhevsk city, Russia, Arsenal, Bulgaria, MSN and CSG Group, Czech Republic, Berkut Ltd, Ukraine Brasil: Condor.Between 2007 and 2010, the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan increased from fourteen thousand to nearly
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