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After more than a year of reporting and research, combing through thousands of foreign lobbying records and haggling with government officials over Freedom of Information Act requests, we have published one of the most comprehensive resources on U.S. military aid and assistance in the post-9/11 era. "Collateral Damage" couples the reporting of 10 of the world's leading investigative journalists on four continents with a powerful database combining U.S. military assistance, foreign lobbying expenditures, and human rights abuses into a single, easily accessible toolkit.

Collateral Damage
U.S. hands out vast sums of money to combat terrorism while ignoring human rights records; lobbying key to funding flows
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2007 — Five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the influence of foreign lobbying on the U.S. government, as well as a shortsighted emphasis on counterterrorism objectives over broader human rights concerns, have generated staggering costs to the U.S. and its allies in money spent and political capital burned. >>

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U.S. Military Aid Foreign Government Spending on Influence Human Rights Violations
BY COUNTRY BY COUNTRY BY COUNTRY
BY REGION
BY AID PROGRAM

Top 10 U.S. Military Aid Recipients
Three Years After 9/11
Country Total
Israel $9,094,874,000
Egypt $6,025,456,540
Pakistan $4,682,808,397
Jordan $2,670,414,688
Afghanistan $2,663,783,836
Colombia $2,048,565,665
Turkey* $1,324,923,070
Peru $445,825,971
Bolivia $320,682,000
Poland $313,136,119
* The $1 billion grant made to Turkey through the Economic Support Fund for fiscal year 2003 was rescinded in 2005.
Anti-Terrorism Funds Enlisted in War on Drugs
Colombia collects millions, even as politicians are linked to brazen cartels and paramilitary groups
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2007 — What do "narcoterrorism" in Colombia and Islamist terrorism in the Middle East have in common? Very little, except that since the al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001, countries that vow to help the United States fight either one find it easier to attract large amounts of U.S. military training and aid. >>
A Lobbying Bonanza
Indonesia hired well-connected firms to restore U.S. funding cut off after 1991 massacre
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2007 — A long string of human rights abuses had put Indonesia in a deep hole with the United States, but then the September 11 terrorists struck. Suddenly the hole got shallower. >>
Billions in Aid, With No Accountability
Pakistan receives the most post-9/11 U.S. military funding, yet has failed to ferret out al Qaeda, Taliban leaders
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2007 — The runaway winner of the post-9/11 race for new U.S. military aid dollars is Pakistan, but where did the money go? Human rights activists, critics of the Pakistani government and members of Congress all want to know, but most of the money — totaling in the billions — came through a Defense Department program subject to virtually no congressional oversight. >>
Sustaining an Unpopular Regime
In the Philippines, U.S. aid has helped bolster a government whose military is tied to extrajudicial killings
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2007 — A huge post-9/11 increase in U.S. military aid to the Philippines has helped counterterrorism efforts, but critics say there have been major downsides for a nation that's routinely criticized for human rights abuses. Among the accusations is that the strengthened Philippine military persecuted and killed scores of political activists.  >>
An Alliance Gone Bad
Thai government's cooperation in war on terror brought in U.S. dollars — and the CIA
BANGKOK, Thailand, May 31, 2007 — It was only two months before the 2003 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok — President Bush would be attending — and Thai soldiers and police had the building surrounded. Their mission: to nab one of the world's most wanted terror suspects, the man thought to be one of the masterminds behind the spectacular nightclub bombings in Bali that had killed more than 200 people a year earlier.  >>
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