Speaking of the Pentagon being not quite forthright about inconvenient matters: “BOMBSHELL: Afghan Colonel Was Paid $250,000 to Kill US Air Force Personnel, Pentagon Cover-Up Ensued,” by Patrick Poole, PJ Media, April 15, 2015:
A bombshell revelation has emerged in the incident responsible for the greatest US Air Force loss of life during the War on Terror and deadliest “green-on-blue” attack during the US involvement in Afghanistan. On April 27, 2011, Afghan Air Force Colonel Ahmad Gul gunned down eight US Air Force personnel and a civilian contractor inside the Afghan Air Force headquarters, including investigators who had just arrived in country to examine rampant corruption in the Afghan military.
Multiple Air Force and CENTCOM investigations claimed to find no motive for the attack, leaving the families of those killed with no answers. Now a senior US official has gone on the record claiming that a United Nations team tracked substantial payments to the killer and his family made days just prior to the incident….
A follow-up report on the Pentagon’s handling of the spike in “green-on-blue” incidents appeared in January after the killing of US Army Major General Harold Greene in August last year, the highest-ranking US official killed during the War on Terror, noting that US personnel who warned of a potential escalation of insider attacks were punished by their superiors…
Sara Carter, senior investigative reporter for The Blaze, reported today on the stunning revelation that this official’s team tracked $250,000 in payments to the killer:A final investigation by U.S. Central Command did find circumstantial evidence that Gul may have been involved in a criminal network, but that evidence was not pursued and a large portion of the investigation still remains classified, according to CENTCOM.
But a six-month investigation by For the Record suggests that Gul murdered the airmen at the behest of someone or a criminal network, according to numerous sources and military documents.
For the Record learned that a joint investigation conducted by then-U.S. Task Force 2010, charged at the time with tracing terror financing in Afghanistan and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, found that Gul had received a large deposit in a family bank account and that all of his debts were wiped clean just one week before the killings.
Thomas Creal, who served as the lead expert for Task Force 2010, investigated the killer’s finances and found evidence he says overwhelmingly points to Gul’s connection to criminal networks.
This report has never been made public.
“There was extensive corruption inside the Afghan military and investigations were cut short, hampered by ranking personnel at the State Department and military,” Creal said. “The insider killings don’t need to continue. We can take steps to mitigate these suicidal hits but we can’t do it if evidence is ignored.”
The Pentagon cover-up began almost immediately after the massacre, most likely to avoid embarrassing revelations of rampant corruption by our Afghan “allies”. The initial report had to be followed up by a second and third report after the lies in the first began to be challenged, including the first report’s claim that Gul had committed suicide after the attack, but was later have found to die from gunshot wounds to the chest from two different weapons.
And despite overwhelming evidence to the effect found in their own reports, the Pentagon claimed to find no conclusive evidence of Taliban involvement even though the terror group immediately claimed credit for the attack….
Barbara says
Same song, second verse – sabotage from the “trusted” leaders. Things have not changed one bit since the Vietnam War. The uniformed politicians betray those at the front line. This is a double betrayal. When a solider betrays another soldier. We expect our suited politicians to betray us. but not someone in uniform.
Darren01 says
I don’t know how some of these people sleep at night. Betraying your fellow soldiers, I hope there is a god and a hell exists, because that act must rank up there as one of the worst sins someone can commit. The people on the front line who decide to risk their lives for the sake of their country deserve better. Then when you factor in things like the insane rules of engagement, rampant political correctness, which besides the rules of engagement gets people killed, and prosecuting a soldier in the middle of a battlefield for doing their job too well, and pigeons in ivory towers want to do the whole social experimenting thing with the military,morale must be low. What’s worse once we leave, do you honestly think the corrupt Afghan military and government will be able to stand up long term against a determined enemy like the Taliban? I don’t. It’s going to be Iraq all over again, except worse. We can prolong the end by staying there longer, but in the end the Taliban (possibly allied or under the same banner as the islamic state) will retake the country.
Dee says
These pentagon leaders should be very ashamed of themselves. They are traitors as far as I’m concerned. Our military is protecting their sorry a$$es and they should be fired.
somehistory says
Snakes come wearing suits and sometimes, uniforms, esp if the uniform covers the muslim body.
satan’s beast is a snake like satan himself, so the slaves must sometimes cover their snake skin with cotton in order to get close.
Davegreybeard says
These Troops are going to need a lot of help when they get home.
sheik yer'mami says
We don’t have Afghan or Muslim “allies”. The idea is preposterous. Any policies on dealing with these people must be based on reality, not wishful thinking.
nothosaur says
I used to plan for my son to attend West Point. Now, after the Fort Hood coverup, the army ranger cover up, and now this story, it’s pretty clear that there are considerably large problems of corruption and sloth in the US military.
The incidents just keep adding up to make a complete picture. Senator John McCain was playing video poker on his cell phone during hearings on whether we should send soldiers into Syria.
Where is the “honor”?
Barbc says
Follow the money (military industrial complex) and equally important the prestige
Lesley says
Kill them wherever ye find them, and drive them out from whence they drive you out; for sedition is worse than slaughter; but fight them not by the Sacred Mosque until they fight you there; then kill them, for such is the recompense of those that misbelieve. English 2 : 191
http://www.thequran.com/Read/Verse/2/1/286/22
Included in sedition in Islam is convincing believers to take another religion
https://books.google.com/books?id=nVWrBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=definition+of+sedition,+islam&source=bl&ots=5nylFIsWiL&sig=gfay_tbzB9z9y2bwr3-fnryFfos&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jp0vVYSKO4WZNvvvgPAH&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=definition%20of%20sedition%2C%20islam&f=false
Brought to you by the great religion of peace (sarcasm).
brenrod says
Liars tend to serially tell lies. Most politicians are liars.
pongidae rex says
How the military of this country finds recruits willing to be used as turkeys in a turkey-shoots all over the world for our politically correct and tactically/strategically incompetent leaders is a baffling mystery to me. I see the broken bodies of the survivors on the streets of Washington DC, often begging. This is insane.
mortimer says
“US personnel who warned of a potential escalation of insider attacks were punished by their superiors…”
Obama’s policy of denying the jihad doctrine has cost many lives needlessly.
mortimer says
When the high command is stuck on giving wrong orders and stuck on wrong DOCTRINE, only the assassination of a high-ranking officer can shake them out of the delusion.
Our soldiers are highly educated professionals. The US army has always performed poorly when politicians micromanaged the army thinking they knew more than the generals. First, win the war, then do the politics.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
LOL! You mean we need a real president who’ll say to the Pentagon: “Gentlemen, win it, whatever it takes. we’ll ‘Pretty it up’ later.”
TH says
Where did the money come from? Suadi Arabai, another ally?
Daniel Triplett says
One out of seven US KIAs has always been Green-on-Blue.
No Muslim can be trusted.
I feel so bad for our troops over there. Almost 14 years there, and the place is still an Islamic, evil, shithole.
Perhaps it’s time to bring them home, then glass the place. We can do Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq in about 24 minutes. When the rest of the world’s Muslims watch that, then perhaps they’ll get on board with the program and deny Allah & Mad Mo.
Jerry says
And that was before Billary Clinton and the Obamination’s Benghazi fake denials.
Jerry says
If you imagine that Islamic inspired chaos in Afghanistan is newly British or USSR or USA making, please read:
A journal of the disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2
by Sale, Florentia Wynch, Lady, 1790-1853
Published 1843
Topics Afghan Wars
See (poor) .pdf copy at:
https://archive.org/download/ajournaldisaste01dickgoog/ajournaldisaste01dickgoog.pdf
Ever since the Islamic conquest of that part of the world it was controlled by many
homicidal warlords, each prepared to pretend to be your friend, at a price,
and in turn slit your throat without provocation or trade you with another
warlord who will hold you to ransom or slit your throat.
underbed cat says
If only the Generals and leadership had a good understanding of Sharia Law or islam the soldiers may have the a better chance by being aware and armed at all times. I have the understanding that the U.S. govn’t wrote and implemented Sharia Law in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Muslims call Sharia law “democracy” but it is far from it. In Sharia law treaties do not have to followed in a time strength, they can deceive and break promises. So with that information I find it strange that the administration would leave behind so many soldiers to try to “help” train the soldiers. The idea that money changed hands to accomplish this shooting and then they went on as usual just seems awful. I am very suspicious about the helicopter that was shot down the the Navy Seals…