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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 3362984" data-attributes="member: 63706">From the article:"As Afghan officials sought to raise interest in Afghanistan with the incoming U.S. administration earlier this year, they pushed the idea of the mineral reserves."The Afghans want our help developing their mining industry. The "stealing" is being done by small Afghan outfits exploiting small deposits of minerals off the books. So the government is not getting the taxes from that activity that they could use to invest in the infrastructure needed to boost their economy.</blockquote>