Reply #3: I found an article so here's a link detailing "flagrant corruption" [View All]

[eleny]

"As President Obama prepares to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, U.S. officials on the ground are despairing over what some describe as the flagrant corruption of President Hamid Karzai's government.

Among the most alarming developments: mounting evidence that Afghan government officials are spiriting millions of dollars in illicitly gained assets out of the country to the Persian Gulf.

A special U.S. money-laundering task force, dubbed the Afghan Threat Finance Cell, is monitoring the movements. "It's very blatant—they are literally smuggling suitcases of bulk cash and moving them to Dubai," said one U.S. official familiar with the money movements as well as other recent investigations into Afghan corruption.

In one recent high-profile case, two officials of the Hajj and Islamic Affairs Ministry were arrested at Kabul International Airport trying to carry $360,000—some of it hidden in biscuit boxes—out of the country."

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/12/04/annals-of-afghan-corruption-government-officials-smuggle-suitcases-of-cash-to-dubai-while-drug-trade-thrives.aspx