Department of Defense covers up horrifying records of Afghan hospital
Records of the appalling conditions of a national military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan are being reviewed by a congressional investigation of the U.S. funded hospital.
The state of the hospital is far beyond any instance of malpractice, instead the conditions are being compared to "Aushwitz-like," and evidence indicates that the then commander Lt. General William Caldwell made every force to avert all efforts to investigate the $11.2 billion dollar Afghan trainee program.
Conditions of the hospital's wounded were revealed in an article on Sept. 3, 2011 by the Wall Street Journal. The article propelled a congressional investigation of the hospital.
Currently an investigation focused on the Military Whistleblower Protection Act is occurring as well as an investigation of Caldwell's delaying of investigations until the November 2010 elections had ended.
New evidence reveals a string of possible corruption involving MPRI, a private contractor for the Pentagon as well as allegations that a top Afghan general, Ahmed Yaftali sold approximately 4.5 tons of medical supplies, all U.S.-funded, to Pakistan for an estimated $153 million and embezzled nearly $20 million of the hospital's U.S. taxpayer's dollars.
During Caldwell's precedence of Dawood, reports read from 2010, "Although the hospital is still undermanned, patient care has improved with the help of additional equipment and capabilities."
Photos which have been massively circulated online show a very grim contrast to reports above. In actuality patients die routinely from starvation and infections which are caused purely by intentionalnegligence. Reports find that staff will sometimes withhold treatment because of tribal reasons or because they are attempting to garnish their U.S. funded salaries with additional gratuities that are solicited to patient's families.
A chain of corruption running from the top of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been revealed in addition to U.S. senior military officers.
In a testimony from Colonel Gerald Nicholas Carozza who went to Kabul to investigate, reported that "They are not leaders in the sense that we think of officers. They steal their soldiers' pay, medicine, food, fuel, bullets and blankets and sell them on the black market – even to the Taliban who might shoot their under supplied subordinates. They use U.S. taxpayer supplied vehicles and aircraft to further their own business interests over the well being of their armed forces or nation. The ANA soldiers in turn go AWOL at official rates close to 30% with Afghans having told me the rate was 40% in early 2011. The same generals told me of those who do serve, 70 to 80 percent are stoned on hash (11)."
Caldwell's spokesperson said "all allegations will be proven false." Caldwell has yet to be called before congress.
The investigation leaves the American public to decide what has been gained by the war which has been raged for more than ten years.
These instances show gross mistreatment of patients. In the U.S. when care is not properly given, legal help is available to combat malpractice but outside of the country's borders, taxpayer's dollars are used for fatal negligence and corruption. Was that the intention of "Operation Enduring Freedom?"
The state of the hospital is far beyond any instance of malpractice, instead the conditions are being compared to "Aushwitz-like," and evidence indicates that the then commander Lt. General William Caldwell made every force to avert all efforts to investigate the $11.2 billion dollar Afghan trainee program.
Conditions of the hospital's wounded were revealed in an article on Sept. 3, 2011 by the Wall Street Journal. The article propelled a congressional investigation of the hospital.
Currently an investigation focused on the Military Whistleblower Protection Act is occurring as well as an investigation of Caldwell's delaying of investigations until the November 2010 elections had ended.
New evidence reveals a string of possible corruption involving MPRI, a private contractor for the Pentagon as well as allegations that a top Afghan general, Ahmed Yaftali sold approximately 4.5 tons of medical supplies, all U.S.-funded, to Pakistan for an estimated $153 million and embezzled nearly $20 million of the hospital's U.S. taxpayer's dollars.
During Caldwell's precedence of Dawood, reports read from 2010, "Although the hospital is still undermanned, patient care has improved with the help of additional equipment and capabilities."
Photos which have been massively circulated online show a very grim contrast to reports above. In actuality patients die routinely from starvation and infections which are caused purely by intentionalnegligence. Reports find that staff will sometimes withhold treatment because of tribal reasons or because they are attempting to garnish their U.S. funded salaries with additional gratuities that are solicited to patient's families.
A chain of corruption running from the top of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been revealed in addition to U.S. senior military officers.
In a testimony from Colonel Gerald Nicholas Carozza who went to Kabul to investigate, reported that "They are not leaders in the sense that we think of officers. They steal their soldiers' pay, medicine, food, fuel, bullets and blankets and sell them on the black market – even to the Taliban who might shoot their under supplied subordinates. They use U.S. taxpayer supplied vehicles and aircraft to further their own business interests over the well being of their armed forces or nation. The ANA soldiers in turn go AWOL at official rates close to 30% with Afghans having told me the rate was 40% in early 2011. The same generals told me of those who do serve, 70 to 80 percent are stoned on hash (11)."
Caldwell's spokesperson said "all allegations will be proven false." Caldwell has yet to be called before congress.
The investigation leaves the American public to decide what has been gained by the war which has been raged for more than ten years.
These instances show gross mistreatment of patients. In the U.S. when care is not properly given, legal help is available to combat malpractice but outside of the country's borders, taxpayer's dollars are used for fatal negligence and corruption. Was that the intention of "Operation Enduring Freedom?"
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