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She explained.
“During the war, the US government would send cash to people fighting on our side. It was funding the people of Afghanistan to not to betray the boys and girls on the ground in camo.”
“Bribery,” Zayn said. “From experience, I’m telling you that it didn’t work. The Taliban had it’s fingers inEVERYTHING.”
She didn’t argue that.
It was why the US eventually pulled out, because too many lives were being lost, and not enough ground was being saved.
“Incentive,” she corrected.
Potato, potatoe. It sucked if you were on the ground there.
Period.
Still, they let her talk.
“Anyway, fifty million dollars was put into cryptocurrency to fund an overlord who was protecting one of the most volatile areas in Afghanistan.”
They listened.
“To that, more money was dumped into that fund, as the US kept shelling out cash to keep the war in their favor. That overlord was not shooting at us, for a while, but instead at the Taliban. It was also a war of monetary gain.”
Zayn was particularly spicy about Afghanistan. He’d lost friends there. Half of his platoon had died there. It was no freaking game in the Sandbox.
“You mean a war we bailed on and let the place collapse?” Zayn asked.
She was to the point.
“Above my paygrade, Marine. I’m just the messenger, and I don’t get involved in the politics of it all. I am a grunt just like you guys. I just answer directly to the general—Gabriel Rothschild.”
After hearing this, Maura was curious.
“So you want us to find the money? That’s more a Merry thing. Cryptocurrency is electronic, so…”
She stopped her.
Oh, it was more than that.
“We have a bigger issue than cryptocurrency. What we don’t know is who killed the soldiers who were in charge of it. As of yesterday, another Marine was found dead. He was tortured and taken apart.”
That shut them all up for a few reasons. If they knew that, then the CIA was up to its law breaking by snooping around on American soil.
It also meant someone hurt one of their brothers.
“Someone is killing Marines?” Maura asked.
Immediately, Elizabeth nodded.
“The U.S. military and the British military were having special operations at a joint Air Force Base in one of the worst parts of Afghanistan. They were in control of getting that moneyto where it needed to be,” she admitted. “They were the keepers of the crypto. The National US Bank of Cryptocurrency, so to speak. It was their job to babysit it, and to use the moneyWISELY.”
Oh, they knew how that went.
Not well, they were betting.
As for the southern part of the country…
They're all well aware of what went on there. It was a dangerous shitshow.
