Their Product Is Used To Kill GIs In Afghanistan... And Now They Want A TAX BREAK IN THE USA?
A Pakistani fertilizer maker whose chemicals have been
used in 80 percent of the roadside bombs that have killed and maimed
American troops in Afghanistan is now seeking U.S. taxpayer subsidies in
order to open a factory in Indiana. The request
appears to be on hold pending further review, but the situation has
stirred outrage in Congress, where some accuse the Pakistani government
of halting efforts to clamp down on the bomb-making. For
the past seven years, the U.S. government has known that the raw
material calcium ammonium nitrate, or CAN, is making its way across the
border into Afghanistan where the Taliban use it to fuel their most
deadly weapons, namely the improvised explosive device. IEDs have long
been the number one killer of U.S. and coalition troops. The
material largely comes from Pakistani fertilizer maker the Fatima
Group. But the Pakistani government has stymied attempts by the Pentagon
to stop the flow of the fertilizer used in these homemade bombs,
according to the director of military Joint IED Defeat Organization, Lt.
Gen. Michael Barbero. "The producers within Pakistan have been less than cooperative," Barbero
told a congressional committee late last year. "Despite making minor
packaging, tracking and marketing changes, they have not implemented any
effective product security or stewardship efforts. Pakistani-based CAN
producers can and must do more. Frustratingly, all direct communication
and engagement with the leaders of Fatima Group was halted by the
government of Pakistan." Read more via Fox News...
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