Who Is Funding The Afghan Taliban? You Don’t Want To Know -- 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,” the fact remains that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a large extent financing their own enemy.
“Everyone knows this is going on,” said one U.S. Embassy official, speaking privately.
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My Comment: The road to hell is always paved with good intentions .... and in Afghanistan there has been a lot of good intentions .... but 4 Nato soldiers and God knows how many civilians were killed today.
The fact that no one wants to talk about how much protection money is being paid off to these thugs and murderers tells me that a lot of money is being paid off. Considering the assistance that goes into Afghanistan runs into the billions each year .... you do the math.