US burning money in Afghanistan

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The US government office of SIGIR has stated that much of the 20 billion dollars of US taxpayer money provided to rebuild Iraq is wasted through corruption and fraud.


SIGIR is the acronym for the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq reconstruction. Set up in 2004, 51 billion US dollars was approved by Congress and this includes 20 billion US dollars allocated to building Iraqi Security Forces and about 20 billion US dollars also allocated for rebuilding basic infrastructure.