100 Gold Star families sue defense contractors, alleging they funded the Taliban
” against Americans by enabling the Taliban to continue to fight — and kill U.S. troops.
— while 100,000 American troops were fighting the Taliban there, congressional investigations have documented. The money was a major source of funding for the Taliban in 2009. The suit alleges that as much as 40% of the funds for major projects were paid to insurgents. It’s illegal under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act to provide material support to the Taliban, yet One of the plaintiffs lost her husband, Lt. Col. David Cabrera, to a car bomb in Afghanistan in 2011. His widow, August Cabrera, told The Wall Street Journal that she hopes “this will in war zones.
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