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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Who is funding the Taliban? You will wish you didn't know.

Reuters is reporting that a big chunk of the funding is coming from the USA. Unbelievable but true!!

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

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