Legend
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Do you remember when Secretary Blinken was testifying and Congressman Tim Burchard asked him, you're giving money to the Taliban? He said, oh, no, we're not giving money to the Taliban. We're giving money to the NGOs. Well, he wasn't lying, but at the same time, he wasn't being truthful. He did not say that those NGOs are all Taliban fronts.
that they give aid, they distribute, and that's a whole different story. Congressman Tim Birch's bill, this new bill that he has introduced, No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act, it includes the NGOs, it includes the Afghan fund that is being managed by Afghan Americans who are pro-Taliban and Taliban supporters, and it covers the 40 million. We need this bill to pass.
All Speaker Johnson has to do is put it up for a vote on the House floor so members could vote on it.
All I know is the bill is ready. It's a very good bill. And Senator Tim Sheehy also introduced a carbon copy of this bill at the Senate. So both bills are ready. It's just waiting for Senator John Thune and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to put it up for a vote. And I hope they do.
But a lot of members of Congress supported it. Congressman Eli Crane was very helpful. I was in D.C. with him not too long ago. He was very helpful. Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was very helpful. Anna Paulina Luna was helpful and a few others. But once again, I want to thank you and Congressman Tim Burchett for this initiative.
A lot of things. Let me first tell you how the Taliban profit from this money. Feel at me. The money basically goes from the US, cash $40 million a week, to Sulaimaniya in Iraq. Cash is loaded on charter planes and it arrives at Kabul International Airport, which is under the control of Sirajuddin Haqqani.
From there, a convoy arranged by Haqqani takes the $40 million, takes it to the Afghanistan International Bank, which is not a Taliban bank. It's just a normal bank. But they don't have the authorization to convert the U.S. dollars to Afghanis.
So what AIB, Afghanistan International Bank, does is they give the money to the Taliban-controlled central bank of Afghanistan, which is like our Federal Reserve. The Central Bank of Afghanistan is currently managed and run by Nur Ahmad Ogo, a sanctioned terrorist who was sanctioned by the United States for financing bomb attacks against American soldiers, which killed many American soldiers.
He's still sanctioned, and he gets $40 million at this point. He has monopoly over Afghanistan's money market rates. And so during the conversion, he invites members that are companies that are affiliated with the Al-Qa'ani Network and senior leadership of the Taliban, money exchangers. And they come and they all bid on who wants to buy each dollar and for how much.
And so the winners every week are individuals associated with the Haqqani Network. And because they control the money market, they basically take a cut right there. And then the Afghanis are given back to the Afghanistan International Bank, which then deposits the money into the bank accounts of these NGOs.
Now, there are about 2,500 or so Afghan NGOs and about 300 international NGOs, including American NGOs. Now, these Afghan ones, every last one of them, their licenses and permits to operate were given to them by the Taliban. And I've said this to you previously. If you go and you open an NGO in Afghanistan, the Taliban will not give you a license because you're anti-Taliban.
So all of those NGOs are pro-Taliban, they're sympathetic towards the Taliban, and they get their licenses. Now, at this point, these NGOs, they have to order... Goods and services, right? So what they do is they, let's say 50% of the material that they need comes from abroad and 50% they purchase from Afghanistan. Rice, wheat, flour, oil, medicine.
They can only purchase from a pre-approved, a list of vendors that are given to these NGOs by the Taliban. So the NGOs cannot buy from Mullah Sean Ryan's Afghan store. They can only buy from that particular store that is operated by the Taliban. Now, the other rest of the materials that they need usually comes from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Dubai, but you cannot buy those in Afghanis.
You can only buy those in dollars. So these NGOs, they reconvert the money through the Central Bank of Afghanistan. And during the second conversion, the Taliban take another cut. Then the money is deposited to move to UAE, to Dubai. The bank that moves this money is called Azizi Bank. It's not even a bank. It's a Ponzi scheme. It's a bank that is managed by the Taliban.
Money arrives in Dubai, and then these NGOs order bulk, like several tons of rice and wheat and medicine, medical equipment, and they transfer those materials in bulk to Kabul International Airport. The company that brings these for these NGOs is Habib Yar Group. Habib Yar Group is owned partially by the brother of the current foreign minister of Taliban. And so he takes a cut.
He charges for his services. The moment this material, the aid, lands at Kabul International Airport, the Taliban charge customs and taxes and fees. Right? So that's where they take another cut. And then the aid arrives at the offices of the NGOs, which then they distribute. Now, who do they distribute the aid to? To a list of hungry and poor Afghans. provided to the NGOs by the Taliban.
So the list will have five poor and hungry Afghans, and then it will have 95 Taliban fighters, families of suicide bombers receive aid. This is all from U.S. tax dollars.
You will see a lot of stuff coming out about this related to Afghanistan and USAID, Sean. See, in Bamiyan province, which does not have a lot of Taliban support historically, USAID would go and distribute the aid. You will see the logo of USAID all over. And Mr. Saleh exposed this. His intelligence exposed this.
So these NGOs affiliated with USAID, they would distribute the aid to the people there alongside the leader of the Taliban, one of the commanders for Bamiyat province. And they would distribute the aid not in the name of the generosity of the American people or in the name of Joe Biden. They would distribute the aid in honor of Mullah Haibatullah. and the Taliban.
In Panjshir, they're still doing that. In Panjshir province, which as you know, has zero Taliban. They are pro-resistance. They're sympathetic towards the resistance. What the Taliban does is they go with this NGO called Ansar, which operates in Panjshir province and Andarab province, Andarab Valley. They will go to this house and there's a lineup of Afghans and widows
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