Who is Funding the Afghan Taliban?
You Don't Want to Know
By Jean MacKenzie
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.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23276.htm
What Does Barack Obama Really Want in Afghanistan?
By William Pfaff
There have been eight years in which to capture bin Laden and it's not been done yet, and there seems no reason to think that anything important would change if the thousands of Marines now scheduled for Afghanistan did capture him. What did it change to capture and execute Saddam Hussein in Iraq?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23285.htm
Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time
What are our servicemen dying for? There are glib answers to that: bringing democracy and development to Afghanistan, supporting the government of President Hamid Karzai in its attempt to establish order in the country, fighting the Taliban and preventing the further spread of radical Islam into Pakistan.
http://snipurl.com/qe5i7
Much Of Afghan Drug Money Going To 'Our Friends'
The Senate report says the United States inadvertently contributed to the resurgent drug trade ... by backing warlords who derived income from the flow of illegal drugs. ... These warlords later traded on their stature as U.S. allies to take senior positions in the new Afghan government.
http://snipurl.com/qe5jg
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jean+MacKenzie
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Pfaff
By Jean MacKenzie
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.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23276.htm
What Does Barack Obama Really Want in Afghanistan?
By William Pfaff
There have been eight years in which to capture bin Laden and it's not been done yet, and there seems no reason to think that anything important would change if the thousands of Marines now scheduled for Afghanistan did capture him. What did it change to capture and execute Saddam Hussein in Iraq?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23285.htm
Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time
What are our servicemen dying for? There are glib answers to that: bringing democracy and development to Afghanistan, supporting the government of President Hamid Karzai in its attempt to establish order in the country, fighting the Taliban and preventing the further spread of radical Islam into Pakistan.
http://snipurl.com/qe5i7
Much Of Afghan Drug Money Going To 'Our Friends'
The Senate report says the United States inadvertently contributed to the resurgent drug trade ... by backing warlords who derived income from the flow of illegal drugs. ... These warlords later traded on their stature as U.S. allies to take senior positions in the new Afghan government.
http://snipurl.com/qe5jg
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jean+MacKenzie
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Pfaff
rudkla - 18. Aug, 09:37
