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633 DOD, Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, April 2011, p. 79.
634 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Advancing our Anticorruption Strategy,” Kabul 4016 cable,
September 12, 2010, p. 2.
635 DOD, Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, April 2011, p. 102.
636 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Advancing our Anticorruption Strategy,” Kabul 4016 cable,
September 12, 2010, pp. 2-3.
637 Ibid.
638 Ibid, p. 2; Combating Terrorism Archive Project, “Interview with Kirk Meyer.”
639 Combating Terrorism Archive Project, “Interview with Kirk Meyer.”
640 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Advancing our Anticorruption Strategy,” Kabul 4016 cable,
September 12, 2010, p. 3.
641 GAO, Afghanistan Security, GAO-09-280, p. 35.
642 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Advancing our Anticorruption Strategy,” Kabul 4016 cable,
September 12, 2010, p. 3.
643 Ibid.
644 Ibid.
645 Mark Koumans, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, statement before the House
Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management,
“Denying Safe Havens: Homeland Security’s Efforts to Counter Threats from Pakistan, Yemen, and
Somalia,” June 3, 2011; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “Afghan Students complete
DHS law enforcement course in Georgia,” News Release, June 21, 2013.
646 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Advancing our Anticorruption Strategy,” Kabul 4016 cable,
September 12, 2010, p. 5.
647 Ibid; U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Barriers to Bringing Formal Justice to the Districts: Lack of
Security; Low Prosecutor Pay; Lack of Housing,” Kabul 726 cable, February 8, 2011, p. 2.
648 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Barriers to Bringing Formal Justice to the Districts,” Kabul 726
cable, February 8, 2011.
649 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Advancing our Anticorruption Strategy,” Kabul 4016 cable,
September 12, p. 5.
650 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Barriers to Bringing Formal Justice to the Districts,” Kabul 726
cable, February 8, 2011, p. 2.
651 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Advancing our Anticorruption Strategy,” Kabul 4016, September
12, p. 5.
652 SIGAR, Afghanistan’s Banking Sector, SIGAR 14-16-AR, pp. 6-8.
653 Ibid, p. 4.
654 Ibid, pp. 6-8.
655 Ibid.
656 Ibid, pp. 7, 10.
657 Ibid, pp. 6-8. In March 2015, Treasury signed a memorandum of understanding with the Afghan
Finance Minister to restart support for capacity building to GIROA and technical assistance to DAB;
see also GIROA Ministry of Finance, “Finance Minister and U.S. Treasury Secretary Sign MOU on
Financial Capacity Building and Technical Assistance,” Press Release, March 30, 2015.
658 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Afghanistan: Advancing our Anticorruption Strategy,” Kabul 4016 cable,
September 12, 2010, p. 4.
659 Ibid.
660 Ibid.
661 Ibid, p. 5.
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