Congress to probe ‘US funding of Taliban’ (it's true?)

[babsbunny]

Congress to probe ‘US funding of Taliban’

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/congress-us-funding-taliban/

By Daniel Tencer
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 -- 7:10 pm

US may be 'unintentionally involved in vast protection racket': Tierney

Troop surge could backfire if it means more cash for insurgents

A House committee has launched an investigation into claims that US military contractors in Afghanistan are paying the Taliban to guarantee the safety of their transportation convoys, an allegation that could mean American taxpayers are indirectly funding the insurgency that has killed more than 900 American soldiers so far.

[AzDar]

1. K & R

[timeforpeace]

2. This is also how we will "exit" in 2011. Payoffs, enemy says "we lose, goodbye!", we leave. Smart

diplomacy.

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r

[RufusTFirefly]

4. We've been "paling around" with these terrorists for decades

December 1997
Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline

A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.

BBC

May 2001
Bush's Faustian Deal with the Taliban

Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.

Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998.

Los Angeles Times

[lib2DaBone]

5. But what if people figure out that Al-Queida are CIA Operatives?

..... that we give them arms and money? What then?

[leftstreet]

6. K&R