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$45 billion in tax dollars goes missing in Afghanistan. Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction is placing the blame on the Pentagon's accounting mismanagement practices.

Only 57% of the $195 million appropriated to CERP from 2002-2013 could be accounted for.

While Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai with US tax payer's dollars.

Could the two be related?

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The CERP initiative “enables U.S. commanders in Afghanistan to respond to urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction requirements in their areas of responsibility by supporting programs that will immediately assist the local population” according to the report. CERP contracts are restricted in terms of spending on individual contracts; those that cost more than $1 million or $5 million have to be approved by oversight bodies, and no individual contract can exceed $20 million.

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Are billions of American taxpayers dollars being taken out of Afghanistan and buying expensive villas in Dubai?

According to SPIEGELONLINE on July 5, 2010, since invading Afghanistan in 2001, the United States has put almost $300 billion into military and reconstruction efforts.A lot of this money has been siphoned off and no one seems to know where it has gone. Now the answer seems to be that the money is being used to buy luxury villas in Dubai.

SpiegelOnline also reports that it leaves the country when politicians and businesspeople board planes from the VIP sections of the airport without being searched. Even if custom officials do find suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars, Afghans with the right connect know how to get it out of the country. It is just another part of the corruption that is part of the way things are done in Afghanistan: a few phone calls and the luggage is loaded onto the airplane. According to some estimates, since 2007, some $3 billion of American has disappeared