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2021-08-21 Afghanistan

Where does the Taliban get its money and who's funding the militant group in Afghanistan?

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-21 07:39|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 Didn't we have this article a couple of days ago?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-21 07:51|| 2021-08-21 07:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Fox published this 24 minutes ago. Old topic, new spin.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-21 07:53|| 2021-08-21 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 ^😎

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-21 08:00|| 2021-08-21 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW, there were no calls for you while you were away.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-21 08:02|| 2021-08-21 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Pakistain, and further afield, Saudi.

we should have gone into Saudi the day after 9/11

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-08-21 09:23|| 2021-08-21 09:23|| Front Page Top

#6 China gets my vote on cui bono

Posted by badanov 2021-08-21 09:30|| 2021-08-21 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 China, via Pakistan.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-08-21 10:40|| 2021-08-21 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Our rules of engagement are going to be exposed when the Chicoms send in about half a million troops and go scorched earth on the locals
If the Chicoms control those rare earths they can effectively compromise our electric car industry’s demand our semiconductor industry
It has been all about rare earths for years while we have been fighting the Taliband and Al Qaeda we should have been developing the resources

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2021-08-21 10:47|| 2021-08-21 10:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Afghanistan still markets its narcotics through the Pakistan military and was doing so even before the Soviet pull-out in 1988.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-08-21 11:12|| 2021-08-21 11:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Pakistain, and further afield, Saudi.

Uncle Sam, via Pakistain.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-21 11:28|| 2021-08-21 11:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Seriously, FOX, it does not occur to you that the ISI ~~might have been~~was funneling US foreign aid dollars to the Taliban?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-21 11:47|| 2021-08-21 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 I wonder how much European Drug Habits weighs in.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-21 12:03|| 2021-08-21 12:03|| Front Page Top

#13 ^

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-21 14:12|| 2021-08-21 14:12|| Front Page Top

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