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Originally posted by SNAKE13X
Sounds a lot like the French Revolution. No surprise here, big banks funding both sides of a war. History repeating itself over and over again.
should say no taxpayer money to foreign countries stop the flow... and makin the u.s suffer even worse.. -_-
Originally posted by lestweforget
One of the funniest CNN reports i have ever seen and a perfect example of how stupid the US government think you are!
Originally posted by boorkii
There no way in hell U.S finances taliban in Afghanistan. Another stupid excuse for why the can't controll the whole area after 10 yers of war.
They know where the money goes, they just don't want to publish that and let the people know.
Originally posted by ISHAMAGI
You obviously know very little about the history of war.
Al-CIA-da the initial grants for the Taliban drug trade and weapons dealing worldwide.
We live in the most corrupt hypocritical country in the world but they wouldn't do that?
Step into reality..
“London and New York, two biggest laundries of criminal and drug money”
Martin Woods, a former senior anti-money laundering officer at the London office of Wachovia Bank says that New York and London have become the world's two biggest laundries of criminal and drug money, and offshore tax havens....
....It all started 10 April 2006, when Mexican soldiers intercepted a DC-9 jet which landed in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf of Mexico. They found 128 cases packed with 5.7 tons of coc aine, valued at 100 million USD. But something else – more important and far-reaching – was discovered in the paper trail behind the purchase of the plane by the Sinaloa narco-trafficking cartel.
Originally posted by boorkii
U.S making money by selling weapons to taliban and producing opium, but why to fund them, I can't understand
Updated December 17, 2009
AP
If the allegations are true, then the U.S. would be unintentionally involved in a protection racket and indirectly financing the enemy, the Democrat leading the inquiry, said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON -- Congress is investigating allegations that U.S. tax dollars are being paid to warlords and the Taliban for security on supply routes used to truck food, water, fuel and ammunition to American troops in Afghanistan.
If the allegations are true, then the U.S. would be unintentionally involved in a protection racket and indirectly financing the enemy, Rep. John Tierney, the Massachusetts Democrat leading the inquiry, said Wednesday.
Taliban leader rejects U.S. attempts to lure away fighters with money
He was referring to the Taliban reintegration provision, part of the $680 billion defense appropriation bill that Obama signed Wednesday to pay for military operations in the 2010 fiscal year.
The provision would separate local Taliban from their leaders, paying the fighters to quit the organization, replicating a program used to neutralize the insurgency against Americans in Iraq, according to the Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Akhund said 19th century British invaders and Soviet fighters in the 1980s tried the same tactic, unsuccessfully.
He said the Taliban consider the U.S. measure "a sign of weakness and complete despondency of the enemy."
At a Dec. 2 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged the long, rugged supply lines to landlocked Afghanistan through Pakistan's port city of Karachi offer numerous opportunities for fraud and corruption that pad the Taliban's accounts.
"There is a standard series of inducements you use to stop people fighting you, and money is one of them," said John Nagl, a former colonel who helped devise the surge strategy in Iraq.
A complication, said Colonel Kilcullen, was that the Taliban's drug money gave it deep pockets to compete with US dollars.
"Pull all your forces out of our prideful country and put an end to the game of colonialization by shedding the blood of innocent Muslim people under the unjustified name of terrorism," he said.