In the wake of a strategic move by President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which effectively led to the dissolution of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a startling revelation has emerged.
The report alleges that USAID was indirectly responsible for the transfer of billions of American dollars into the hands of the Taliban.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, has provided a detailed account of the events that led to the Taliban acquiring $2.9 billion in American cash. According to Greenfield, the DAB Afghanistan Bank, under Taliban control, boasted about $40 million in hundred-dollar bills "sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport." This was one of three shipments of "humanitarian aid" totaling over $100 million.
The bank was under the management of Noor Ahmad Agha, a "specially designated terrorist" accused of financing "bomb-making" activities, including IEDs that claimed the lives of over 1,000 American soldiers. As reported by WND, Greenfield's report asserts that "while no international organization was willing to admit to the cash-smuggling operation, the ultimate responsibility lay with USAID."
The $40 million on the tarmac was part of a larger scheme in which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN. The UN then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan, despite it being illegal for U.S. banks to process such transfers to the Taliban. Greenfield wrote, "USAID was helping finance an illegal operation to circumvent sanctions on terrorists."
USAID defended its actions by claiming it did not provide "currency" to the Taliban. Instead, the money was sent to the United Nations' "pooled accounts." The $1.7 billion was then used by the U.N. to buy dollars, which were flown into Afghanistan and traded for Afghan currency, which the U.S. had arranged to be printed on behalf of the Taliban.
Greenfield's report further alleges that "USAID funded the U.N., which used an intermediary to purchase the hundred-dollar bills from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where Afghanistans wealth, claimed by the Taliban, was being held, then contracted with a company, quite possibly Osama bin Ladens old airline, to fly it to Afghanistan, deposit it in banks, allocate it to NGOs and then use DAB to convert the dollars into local Afghan currency."
Ned Price, a former spokesman for the State Department, stated that the plan was to "address one of the aspects of Afghanistans ongoing liquidity crisis." However, Greenfield argues that the situation is even more dire than it appears. He points out that DAB arbitrarily set the exchange rate for afghanis and dollars "at a far higher rate than the black market exchange rate."
Greenfield also warns that this is not an isolated incident. He cites similar schemes in Syria, Yemen, Gaza "and many other terrorist areas around the world." This revelation raises serious questions about the role of USAID and other international organizations in indirectly funding terrorist activities. It underscores the need for greater transparency and accountability in the allocation and distribution of international aid.
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