Some (NATO) Convoys May Be Paying Off Taliban

tekisui

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Fri Dec-12-08 08:38 AM
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Some (NATO) Convoys May Be Paying Off Taliban

Source: Military.com

More than 300 supply-laden vehicles winding their way from Pakistan to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan were destroyed in Taliban attacks just this month.

But not every convoy is being attacked, and a report by The Times of London claims that's because the Taliban has cut itself in for a piece of the action.

The Times is reporting that the multinational companies with the coalition contracts are subcontracting the work to local trucking companies which, in turn, hire Afghan security companies as escorts.

A number of these companies have begun paying Taliban forces for protection, according to the report. That meaning that millions of dollars is ending up in the hands of the Taliban, who are using it to fund their own operations against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

“We estimate that approximately 25 per cent of the money we pay for security to get the fuel in goes into the pockets of the Taliban,” one fuel importer is quoted by the Times as saying.

The paper said the payments were confirmed by several fuel importers, trucking and security company owners, though none agreed to be named because of risk to their own companies and lives, it said.

more: http://www.military.com/news/article/some-convoys-may-be-paying-off-taliban.html?col=1186032310810

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DCKit

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Fri Dec-12-08 08:45 AM
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1. Works for heroin, cocaine and other illegal imports too.

Helluva business plan.

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madokie

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Fri Dec-12-08 08:48 AM
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2. I swear you can't make this shit up

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tekisui

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Fri Dec-12-08 08:50 AM
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3. Funding both sides of an unwunnable war.

Amazing, isn't it?

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SpiralHawk

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Fri Dec-12-08 08:53 AM
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4. "What's amazing is that I'm THE DECIDER. Smirk." - Commander AWOL (R)

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madokie

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Fri Dec-12-08 08:56 AM
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5. Criminal is more like it

and yes it is amazing. Yesterday I heard a goood man on my television telling me is so many words, to hang in there he was working on it. I just love him too. Soon to be President Obama that is.

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tekisui

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Fri Dec-12-08 09:05 AM
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7. That is one thing I can't get my mind around.

I know that Obama has been speaking with South Asian experts for 2 years or more. He must understand what happens to occupiers and military actions there. Adding 2 or 3 brigades will add nothing more than more targets. I just don't get how he can think heading down this same road is going to do anyone any good.

Unless he has some 'super secret' plan to produce a bin Laden body and get the hell out, it is doomed to fail.

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madokie

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Fri Dec-12-08 09:15 AM
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8. Any war such as what we're doing there is doomed to failure

Killing people is never right. War is the exact opposite of what is needed to deal with terrorism.

We won't have troops over there much longer. I trust him on that.

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L0oniX

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Fri Dec-12-08 09:04 AM
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6. Hmmm ...isn't it a federal crime to fund any terrorist organization?

In that case I am a criminal because I pay taxes to a terrorist government and country ....the USA.

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shadowknows69

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Fri Dec-12-08 09:19 AM
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9. Ok, I don't pretend to be a military genius but

Edited on Fri Dec-12-08 09:21 AM by shadowknows69

When you have to bribe your enemy to allow you to get the supplies through to keep fighting them, haven't you pretty much been handed your ass at that point. I don't know which is weirder that we're bribing them or that they're taking it instead of just continuing to blow our shit up? When exactly did we enter the Twilight Zone (TM) again do you figure? Reagan?

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tekisui

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Fri Dec-12-08 09:22 AM
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10. The Taliban makes some serious money letting some of them through.

That is why they don't blow them all up. They know they can outlast us, so letting some through and making millions on escorting them is a win/win for them.

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shadowknows69

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Fri Dec-12-08 09:28 AM
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11. I know the logic behind it, but I have to write it so I can actually read it and believe it

And I still don't believe we're going to throw more gas and wood on this conflagration.

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