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washingtonpost.com - 10/19/2009

Washingtonpost - Diverse Sources Fund Insurgency In Afghanistan

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KABUL -- 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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Hey, Joe, Where You Going With That Gun In Your Hand? Pt. II
Obsidian Wings — ... voiced skepticism that clamping down on the opium trade would crimp the Taliban’s overall finances. “Eliminating insurgent access to narco-profits — even if possible, and while disruptive — would not destroy their ability to operate so long as other funding sources remained intact,” General McChrystal said. The C.I.A. recently estimated in a classified report that Taliban leaders and their associates had received $106 million in the past year from donors outside Afghanistan, a figure first reported last month by The Washington Post. Private citizens from Saudi Arabia, ...

HEY, JOE, WHERE YOU DOING WITH THAT GUN IN YOUR HAND?
Amygdala — ... voiced skepticism that clamping down on the opium trade would crimp the Taliban’s overall finances. “Eliminating insurgent access to narco-profits — even if possible, and while disruptive — would not destroy their ability to operate so long as other funding sources remained intact,” General McChrystal said. The C.I.A. recently estimated in a classified report that Taliban leaders and their associates had received $106 million in the past year from donors outside Afghanistan, a figure first reported last month by The Washington Post. Private citizens from Saudi Arabia, ...