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2009-07-22 Afghanistan

Taliban financers based in Persian Gulf: Holbrooke

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Posted by Fred 2009-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 coalition forces spent over $16 billion on the war in Afghanistan, which shows that the Taliban must be receiving a huge amount

Fairness is important. If the coalition gets $16 billion then the Taliban should get $16 billion, and if they don't have it then we should provide it for them. (Position statement that may soon be released by the western 'progressives'.)

Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-22 07:42|| 2009-07-22 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Richard Holbrooke, the United States' special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says some fundamentalists based in Persian Gulf states are financing the Taliban.

How much are we paying this genius each year to come up with news flashes such as this?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-22 07:52|| 2009-07-22 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Take a start at the countries who supported the last Taliban Govt ie Pakistan,Saudi and UAE!!!!

Posted by Paul2 2009-07-22 09:48|| 2009-07-22 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Besides producing 93% of the world's opium, the region has lots of gemstones they have been mining. Free trade in illicit goods, arms for drugs, has quite a market(FARC, deodorant in the Maghreb, etc) and plenty of banks to launder the $$$$$$$$$. Holbrooke either wants to deflect attention from the dirty truth or is truly a dipwad puppet, or both.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-07-22 10:33|| 2009-07-22 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 So why are we pouring more and more money into AfPak w/ the Pakis raking $ off each shipping container and tanker? Instead we should be working to crash the price of oil. But that would require, you know, a sensible domestic energy policy.

Posted by ed 2009-07-22 11:17|| 2009-07-22 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Why not make all this revenue subject to US federal tax? That'll chill down any activity and make recovery impossible for Taliban revenues.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-07-22 11:23|| 2009-07-22 11:23|| Front Page Top

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