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Costly Afghanistan Road Project Is Marred by Unsavory Alliances

Date: May 1, 2011

Authors: Alissa J. Rubin and James Risen

QUOTE: The vast expenses and unsavory alliances surrounding the highway have become a parable of the corruption and mismanagement that turns so many well-intended development efforts in Afghanistan into sinkholes for the money of American taxpayers... There have been 364 attacks on the Gardez-Khost Highway.

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