The money the company received from US tax-payers was used for "training, equipment, and logistical support" for Afghan forces engaged in counternarcotics operations. These agencies included the"Afghan National Interdiction Unit, the Ministry of Interior, and the Afghan Border Police," says a report from The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, cited by the Guardian.
Formerly known as Blackwater, and later rebranded as Academi, the notorious company has been the biggest beneficiary of counternarcotics expenditure in the war-torn country.
However, the firm failed to eradicate opium production. In fact, this has reached record highs since the beginning of US occupation in 2001.
Since the US toppled the Taliban in 2002, opium production in the country has tripled. Afghanistan accounted for over 90 percent of the world's heroin market in 2014.
A UNAIDS report from 2014 said that there is a 7-percent increase in land being cultivated despite the US spending over $7 billion on counternarcotics programs.
Comment: In February this year, US Utility company, Con Edison responded to hundreds of manhole explosions in New York in the space of just three days. Perhaps not all of these incidents can be attributed solely to the conventional meme of "manhole explosions this time of year are as common as snow, because the salt used to treat icy roads corrodes underground wiring when it seeps below the surface".
As well as potentially leaking gas mains, maybe there is a build up of methane from deep below the planet's surface too which is igniting?
With Manhattan's East Village recently shaken by an explosion and partial building collapse, perhaps another source of ignition - electrical in nature - needs to be considered.
Could some of the increasing number of power outages, such as in the Netherlands and Turkey, also be affected by this electrical 'grounding' too?
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