American military gear sold as scrap in Afghanistan

American military gear sold as scrap in Afghanistan | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com:
 "The Bagram scrap yard is owned by Feda Mohammad Ulfat, who helped build the neighboring base more than a decade ago, transporting gravel and concrete. Now, Ulfat is helping to dismantle the base, taking in thousands of pounds of American scrap metal every day.
"I never imagined we'd be getting this much stuff," he said.
Not all of the equipment reaching the scrap yard was deliberately damaged: Some was already broken after a decade of use. Ulfat decided several years ago that he would invest in it anyway.
Some of his friends thought he was crazy, but Ulfat had an idea: The expensive American gear could be melted and reconstituted as raw material for an Afghan building boom. He'd gotten rich on dozens of other contracts with the U.S. military, and he assumed this would be no different."