Watchdog: U.S.-funded power plant in Afghanistan at risk of 'catastrophic failure'

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Watchdog: U.S.-funded power plant in Afghanistan at risk of 'catastrophic failure' –Special Inspector General says $335 million plant already experiencing 'premature failure of equipment' | 12 Aug 2015 | A U.S.-funded power plant in Afghanistan is in danger of catastrophic failure, according to a letter released Thursday by a government watchdog. The $335 million Tarakhil power plant, near Kabul, was built as a joint venture by engineering firm Black & Veatch of Overland Park, Kan., and its then-partner Louis Berger Group, under a contract awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2007. [Sociopaths in Congress won't allocate twenty cents to fix a 150-year-old bridge in America--but the dirt-bags are more than happy to allocate billions to waste in Afghanistan, so the CIA can maintain its poppy fields and opium routes. --LRP]

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