Your Taxes Fund Taliban(no joke)
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/taliban/funding-the-taliban
KABUL — It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country.
Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban themselves prefer to term it, “spoils of war,” the fact remains that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a large extent financing their own enemy.
“Everyone knows this is going on,” said one U.S. Embassy official, speaking privately.
It is almost impossible to determine how much the insurgents are spending, making it difficult to pinpoint the sources of the funds.
Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, former Taliban minister to Pakistan, was perhaps more than a bit disingenuous when he told GlobalPost that the militants were operating mostly on air.
“The Taliban does not have many expenses,” he said, smiling slightly. “They are barefoot and hungry, with no roof over their heads and a stone for their pillow.” As for weapons, he just shrugged. “Afghanistan is full of guns,” he said. “We have enough guns for years.”
The reality is quite different, of course. The militants recruit local fighters by paying for their services. They move about in their traditional 4x4s, they have to feed their troops, pay for transportation and medical treatment for the wounded, and, of course, they have to buy rockets, grenades and their beloved Kalashnikovs.
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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/taliban/funding-the-taliban
Great Post -- I hate the truth in it -- This is good fodder
for Conservative friends who do not understand the "samenes" of the "blue" Neocon voting decision vs the "red" Neocon voting decision.
Obama and Bush are made from the same Sock-Puppet Parts (hahahaha)
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this article is a terrific tool to get the "blue" neocon to start thinking and do research...
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good story. i remember the report on russia today about this as well.
Audit the Fed!
It is your INVISIBLE tax dollars, along with the drug money and the extortion going on 'over there' that is funding the Taliban.
If you want to defeat terrorism, end the central banks, use sound money and barter.
I was thinking
if taxpayers money was used for criminal activity can we as taxpayers ask the gov to give us our money back*)) plus penalties!!
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This would have been a good
This would have been a good thing to tell neocons during the campaign.
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imagine
if somebody like Jesse Ventura Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul mentions this during their MSM exposure...
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Not suprised. They have to keep enemies funded so that we will
continously have wars to fight.
"We have to spend money to keep from going bankrupt"
Joseph Biden VP , USA
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like Vietnam...........
artificial war to go as long as possible costing as much as possible...Ezra Pound was right...who remembers this great American poet?
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Ezra Pound, political prisoner, and mentor to Eustace Mullins...
Author of "Secrets of the Federal Reserve"
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US also created, trained and funded Al Qaeda
* and Osama bin Laden to help fight in Afghanistan against the Russians
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when I was growing up in Poland
in at that time Communist country Radio Free Europe and BBC Voice of America these 3 radio stations would broadcast support for the Afghans fighting the Soviets(the evil empire as Reagan said) 24/7....truth be told Reagan and Vatican sponsored SOLIDARNOSC-SOLIDARITY workers "freedom" union was a part of that chess game...
Lech Walesa and other agents... and the present Polish government works for US and Israeli intrests having troops in Afghanistan(before that in Iraq...)
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Digg - Dugg - and Dagnabit!!!!
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Thank you patriot
for keeping this alive and Thank you Liberty Belle and others ~ you are all in my heart beautiful souls.
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Another reason...
why interventionism does not work and will never work.
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well said patriot
this is a very disturbing article just shows how screwed this fake war on terror is.
Thank you for bumping this up.
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my favorite line from the article
“I was building a bridge,” he said, one evening over drinks. “The local Taliban commander called and said ‘don’t build a bridge there, we’ll have to blow it up.’ I asked him to let me finish the bridge, collect the money — then they could blow it up whenever they wanted. We agreed, and I completed my project.”
reminds me of Ron Paul talking about building bridges abroad and then bombing them instead of building them at home.
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