Another Million Little Pieces?

emeraldkity4
Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:04:00 +0000

Krakauer has more credibility. I am halfway through the essay, but had to stop because I was getting so mad.
Just going by the numbers of people that had been on the board of CAI ( Central Asia Institute) & resigned ( including the father of a friend who was the chair in 2001) out of frustration & anger with Mortenson, are not just coincidental.
Mortenson did use CAI as his personal ATM.
Using CAI funds to buy thousands of copies of his book to distribute at book signings ( allowing him to rack up sales & royalties that wouldn’t have counted had he gotten the book through the publisher).
Building schools, but not providing funds to hire or train teachers/buy supplies, so that the schools remain empty.
CAI does not receive any proceeds from the sale of his books, that is split between Mortenson & his ghostwriter, David Relin.
Painting the villages where different Muslim sects actually live side by side as “teeming with fundamentalist madrases & Taliban on the loose”, which is fear-mongering that serves his purpose to find more donors.
He is spending more money to charter jets & pay his own expenses than what goes towards CAI.
Some of his stories are exaggerated , some seem made up of whole cloth- they all make me very angry, as they took money away from organizations which actually were helping.