Kabul (Reuters) - U.S. auditor for Afghanistan, reconstruction, said waste and fraud in efforts to rebuild the war-torn country may have cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars, resigned on Tuesday.
Fields of Arnold, a former Marine Corps General, said he would resign on February 4, after almost three years as the Inspector General special for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR) supervises tens of billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan.
In September, a senior Democrat on the Senate Committee on Armed Services, three Republican senators and group nonprofit project on monitoring of the Government, has urged us President Barack Obama fire fields, which they accused of not do its job.
"Currently, having had this opportunity to contribute to the American mission in Afghanistan, I digress confident in the knowledge that SIGAR is positioned to provide essential support to the strategy of the President," field said in a statement.
Fields already defended his agency, work who believes that the United States has spent $ 51 billion on reconstruction of the Afghanistan since 2002, and that number is set to rise to $ 71 billion next year.
"Under general mandate fields, SIGAR produces many critical reports improved reconstruction efforts and helped ensure that programmes funded by the U.S. reach their goals," White House associate press, said Robert Gibbs.
American reconstruction activities are a major component in order to even greater external assistance, involving dozens of donor countries and hundreds of aid groups, large and small. Office of field described in a report late last year a "confusing maze" agencies and contractors in this effort to help.
Experts believe it will take years to build an effective Government can provide services base in Afghanistan, where corruption and the lack of a functional justice system has encouraged support for the Taliban.
The Taliban are at its fort as Afghan forces-backed U.S. ousted the Islamic Government in 2001, after that she refused to deliver militants of al Qaeda, including Osama bin Laden, after the September 11 attacks in the United States.
Violence is worse in the long war close of the Decade and the insurgency has spread from its traditional strongholds in the South and East during the past two years in an once-peaceful areas of the North and West.
A review of strategy of war Obama, released in December found U.S. and NATO forces have been progress against the Taliban and al Qaeda but serious challenges remain and it has warned there was more to be done to improve governance and fight corruption.
Obama is under pressure to show results in Afghanistan, it can begin bringing troops home in July as expected American. NATO leaders agreed in November to the end of combat operations and responsible for the security of Afghan forces by hand at the end of 2014.
(Editing by Alex Richardson)
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