"All around Afghanistan, the U.S. military is on a building spree"

[another saigon]

no one can waste money, fuel, energy and human life like the USA. No One.

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The Army is looking to spend as much as $100 million to expand its Special Operations headquarters in northern Afghanistan.

All around Afghanistan, from Kandahar Airfield to the Bagram jail, the U.S. military is on a building spree, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on wartime encampments. By one count, America and its allies now have 700 bases in Afghanistan. But most of the construction — and most of the extra troops “surging” into the country — are going to the violent south and the dangerous east.

Until recently, northern Afghanistan was considered quiet. Regional hub Mazar-e-Sharif was the first major city in Afghanistan to be taken from the Taliban. But, especially in nearby Kunduz province, violence is bubbling up once again.

The Amy expects its expanded Special Operations HQ in Mazar-e-Sharif to occupy 70,000 square meters. It’ll include a “communications building, Tactical Operations Center, training facility, medical aid station, Vehicle Maintenance Facility… dining facility, laundry facility, and a kennel to support working dogs,” according to a request for proposals. “Supporting facilities include roads, power production system and electrical distribution, water well, non-potable water production, water storage, water distribution, sanitary sewer collection system, communication manhole/duct system, curbs, walkways, drainage and parking. Additionally, the project will include site preparation and compound security measures to include guard towers.”

Construction is supposed to take a year. At which point, the U.S. is allegedly supposed to begin drawing down its forces in Afghanistan. Allegedly.

Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/army-plans-100-mil-spec-ops-hq-in-afghanistan/#ixzz0w74JWBpR

[aquart]

1. Leave? Who will protect our property????

I hate this. We need to leave.

[Rushtu]

2. Fuel delivery to Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan

Well, as all we know, now the Pentagon is processing bids on a new contract to provide more than $100 million worth of jet fuel (each year) to a key US airbase in Kyrgyzstan. It is interesting that previously the fuel question was under the charge of the youngest son of ex-president of Kyrgyzstan, Maksim Bakiyev, who supplied Manas with tax free fuel from Belarus. Here, we may only guess how much fabulous were the dividends, the participators of the process – the Bakiyev’s family, Lukashenko and the Manas high officers – had been receiving from the deal. As for me, now it will be quite interesting to watch how Americans will try to restore previous contracts, so much profitable for them. Evidently, in Pentagon they’ve decided that now they have enough influence on the new government of Kyrgyzstan for it. Well, it all depends, I say.

[aquart]

3. We have an airbase in Kyrgyzstan? Doing what?

Aren't massacres happening there?

[blindpig]

4. 'withdrawal' huh...

my ass