Qaeda 'faces funding crisis' - Osama bin Laden, World

Report: Al-Qaida Hurting for Funds
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... the al-Qaeda leadership has already warned that a lack of funds was hurting the group’s recruitment and training efforts. “We assess that al-Qaeda is in its weakest financial condition in several years and that, as a result, its influence is waning,” Mr Cohen said from Washington. But he added that as the organisation had multiple donors who were “ready, willing and able to contribute” the situation could be rapidly reversed. Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

Funding al Qaeda and the Taliban
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Via the BBC we have some good news and some bad news: Al-Qaeda ‘faces funding crisis’. First, the good news: Al-Qaeda is in its worst financial state for many years while the Taliban’s funding is flourishing, according to the US Treasury. [...] The influence of the network - damaged by US efforts to choke funding - is waning, [Senior Treasury official David Cohen] said. Certainly since al Qaeda is the actor in this context most likely to attempt a ...

Anand Gopal Interview: "The Taliban Don't Need Al Qaeda Like They Did Eight Years Ago"
Newshoggers.com — ... It's said that one should always follow the money. If so, then why is it that if Al Qaeda and the Taliban have merged, as Bergen's headline puts it, that the Taliban are said to have plenty of funding while Al Qaeda is broke? ...