{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"America’s \"Phantom Aid\" to Afghanistan","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4211.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4211.html'\u003EAmerica’s \"Phantom Aid\" to Afghanistan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eby:  Matthew J. Nasuti, former U.S. State Department Official and U.S. Air Force Captain \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n\tReuters reported on April 23, 2007 that Peter Bergen, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, had testified before the U.S. Congress that 86% of American Government aid to Afghanistan is \u201cphantom\u201d in that it never reaches the Afghan people.  Ann Jones, an American aid worker, in a September 3, 2006, article for the San Francisco Chronicle titled: \u201cHow U.S. Dollars Disappear in Afghanistan,\u201d (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}