Foreign aid flowing to Taliban

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 ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via NewsRack (Pakistan)
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by Naomi Isler - Aug. 16, 2009

It's a somewhat scary view of what may really be going on. Sourcing seems plentiful, if mostly anonymous, but there is a quote from Holbrooke. I

What it implies is that the Talibn is a lot more powerful and entrenched then most Western governments and media sources are willing to admit. That ... More »

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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 ... More »

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