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Another $1.5 billion that may go up in smoke in Afghanistan

By Kelly Cohen

Published July 18, 2014 6:30pm ET

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Another $1.5 billion that may go up in smoke in Afghanistan — Fire consumes an arch-span building at Afghan National Army Brigade Camp Sayar in Afghanistan in 2012. The incident report on the fire said the building, which was 85 percent complete, burned in 30 minutes. (Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers via SIGAR)

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it can certainly burn like them.

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