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Diverse Sources Fund Afghanistan’s Insurgency [ACORN Mentors?]
Washington Post ^ | September 26, 2009

Posted on 09/26/2009 11:42:12 PM PDT by Steelfish

Diverse Sources Fund Afghanistan’s Insurgency Foreign donations, opium bolstered by criminal rackets, U.S. officials say

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement's money supply.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; unholyalliance

1 posted on 09/26/2009 11:42:12 PM PDT by Steelfish
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An Afghan man pushes his overloaded donkey cart as his son holds ...

An Afghan man pushes his overloaded donkey cart as his son holds boxes of tin down

2 posted on 09/27/2009 1:25:23 AM PDT by underthestreetlite
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Afghanistan has some of the best gem quality tourmaline crystals in the world. I’d bet some troops stationed there are shipping it home. I know I would.


3 posted on 09/27/2009 4:07:42 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: Steelfish

When you have a coward in chief who has a problem with the US winning, the people who hate the US are encouraged and more likely to open their wallets.


4 posted on 09/27/2009 4:31:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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