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Afghanistan
Official: US Paying Taliban to Reduce Afghan Attacks
2011-03-01
While this is not a link I frequent, it can hardly be classified as "single source reporting." You may draw your own conclusions with regard to veracity and timing, which happens to coincide with recent administration "secret negociations with the Taliban."

Michael Corleone: Don't ask me about my business, Kay.
Michael Corleone: Is it true?
Michael Corleone: Don't ask me about my business...
Kay Adams: No...
Michael Corleone: [slams the desk] ENOUGH!
This story pops up periodically, but it's been going on since we started supplying troops through Pakistan. Unfortunately, so long as the government those running Pakistan have pet jihadis and, even if they didn't, so long as the powers-that-be cannot establish control over Pakistan's outlying territories even if they wanted to, this mafia-style blackmail will continue.
Posted by:Fleck Chailet5887

#5  ION FARSINEWS > AFGHAN ANALYSTS: US PERMANENT BASE THREATENS PEACE, as it is believed such Bases may be used by the US-NATO as a SPRINGBOARD FOR [ssshhhh,ccccc, IMPERIALIST] US OR US-LED ATTACKS AGZ IRAN, CENTRAL ASIA, + CENTRAL ASIA, ETC.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-03-01 23:40  

#4  The question is, why did this story pop up again? Who is sending what message by bringing this to whose attention?

I'm not good at this game. But thank you for posting the story, Fleck Chailet5887. There are plenty here better at it than me.

Posted by: trailing wife   2011-03-01 23:11  

#3  I think the author's name says it all":
Near Term Drop in Attacks Means Huge Influx of Cash to Taliban
by Jason Ditz, February 28, 2011
Posted by: Chesney Phiger9145   2011-03-01 19:12  

#2  Afghanistan is a place where everybody lies, all the time, about everything. And everybody assumes that everybody else is lying as well.

Beyond that, everyone is a free agent. In this case, working for the Taliban one day, and NATO the next, and someone else the next. Usually money trumps, but after it's paid, loyalty evaporates. They will betray their family, their tribe, and just about everything else, including Islam.

There is no redemption in such a place, only survival for that day. It is truly post-apocalyptic.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-03-01 17:51  

#1  This is Jizya. This is capitulation. It is not even close to appeasement. It is tribute

Impeach Obama. NOW. In the honor of those who fought over their to prevent this enrichment of terrorism. We lost.
Posted by: Daffy Crusing3355   2011-03-01 17:23  

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