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Who paid for it?  Like you even had to ask.
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The Task Force struck a contract with Central Asian Engineering, which received just under $3 million from the U.S. government to construct the Sheberghan gas station. Sopko noted the cost of building a similar gas station in neighboring Pakistan is no more than $500,000.

But the final tab in Sheberghan would turn out to be astronomically higher.

The Task Force spent $42,718,739 between 2011 and 2014 to "fund the construction and to supervise the initial operation of the CNG station," the U.S. military told SIGAR -- with "approximately $12.3 million in direct costs and $30 million in overhead costs."

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Every time I see a story like that, I wonder what illegal operation that money really funded.
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Every time I see a story like that, I wonder what illegal operation that money really funded.

Interesting.

I wonder how I can get some of that pie.

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Every time I see a story like that, I wonder what illegal operation that money really funded.

Interesting.

I wonder how I can get some of that pie.

You got blackmail material on a congressman?  If the answer is yes...

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