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US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan: Taliban still funded from abroad
Shariah Finance Watch ^
| 31 July 09
| Shariah Finance Watch
Posted on 07/31/2009 6:26:43 AM PDT by LSUfan
The US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr Richard Holbrooke, says that Taliban militants are receiving more funding from their sympathisers abroad than from Afghanistan’s illegal drug trade.
Mr Holbrooke says: “More money is coming from the Gulf than is coming from the drug trade to the Taliban.”
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; islam; jihad; mohammedanism; oef; sharia; taliban; terrorism; zakat
Ah, our "friends" in the Gulf...
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:26:44 AM PDT
by
LSUfan
To: LSUfan
Nevertheless, it is vital that we continue the prohibition of drugs so as to retain this minor funding source for the Taliban. Every little bit helps!
/sarcasm
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:31:22 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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