Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know


	Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know

JackieDel

8-14-2009 8:03 PM

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war, usa, us foreign policy, bush, afghanistan

JackieDel says:

Bush and his cronies obviously did not think far enough ahead when they decided to bomb Afghanistan back into the stone age!

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8-15-2009 12:55 AM

foxyarse

No invader has ever won in Afghanistan,,,its a quagmire, a nightmare

8-15-2009 7:17 PM

The Infowarrior

The Al Qaeda (the Database) and the Taliban are nothing more than unwitting CIA puppets and the CIA fund themselves almost solely from the sale of Afghan opium and Columbian cocaine.

Bin laden was and still is a registered CIA Asset sent in to destabilise Russia during the Cold War.

8-16-2009 10:46 AM

xpersianx

Iranian regime helps them for sure !!!

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