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08-17-2009, 12:46 PM #1
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know
by Jean MacKenzie
August 17, 2009
GlobalPost and Reuters
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,â€
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