Afghan Foreign Assistance Helps Fund The Taliban

Global Post:

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.

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Comments

[Durango]

This is a surprise why?

Anyone out there doesn't know Afghanistan is corrupt?

Although how much of this is Taliban or simple protection rackets is open to question.

Or how the Taliban differ from simple protection rackets is another good question.

[cliffhammond]

I'm a little surprised by this article. Frankly, I couldn't prove it but I've suspected that the Global Post is a disinformation channel for Homeland Security. While the Taliban was in power, before the U.S. invasion, they were holding the thumb down on poppy production. After the invasion, it was the U.S. who, just as we did in the Contra revolution in Nicaragua, looked the other way. We felt it necessary to recruit the support of the provincial war lords in our efforts against the Taliban and so we allowed them to transport the poppy crops in their various districts so that they could get rich and pay for the expenses of their various armies. It is not the Taliban who traffics in drugs; although, the Defense Department would like the world to think so. It is the war lords who support the U.S. and who are guaranteeing control of the provinces through which the pipelines are moving oil and gas from Central Asia and the Caspian. Their payoff is in allowing these war lords to traffic in poppy to Turkey where it is refined into heroin for distribution to Europe.

[Bcasey11]

Drugs make money for everyone!

[wadenelson1]

Umm Huffpo, moderators, censors, WHY isn't this the lead story? US FUNDING TALIBAN

[deepfreezevideo]

Amazing to hear Charlie Gibson completely contradict the facts in this story in tonight's ABC World News. His report stated that it was ONLY the poppy industry that funded the Taliban.

Nice to know that ABC believes it can tell bald faced lies and count on an American public to be so shortsighted and ignorant that they will believe them. I sat there yelling at the TV set, "oh really, so all those oil profits DON'T REACH the Taliban?"

I wanted to throw a shoe at the set, but you can't do that like you could in the days of CRT's.

[wadenelson1]

I'd make a comment but my head just exploded.