>> reporter: with americans still being attacked every week in afghanistan. >> ied, ied! >> reporter: the u.s. government has worked hard to find out who has paid for the continued and deadly insurgent strikes. only to discover that among those connected to the terrorists were companies also working as contractors for the u.s. government. according to these two lists, produced by the military and the commerce department. u.s. officials say the companies have already received about $150 million in u.s. taxpayer money over the years. >> it's like the united states government subsidizing the taliban, al qaeda, the haqqani network. those groups trying to shoot and kill our soldiers. >> reporter: among them a road construction company that the u.s. says is partly owned by a leader of the haqqani network. blamed for an attack on the u.s. embassy two years ago that killed 16 people. the company denies any ties to terrorists.
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