Posted on 09/26/2009 11:42:12 PM PDT by Steelfish
Diverse Sources Fund Afghanistans 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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An Afghan man pushes his overloaded donkey cart as his son holds boxes of tin down
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.
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.
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