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Britons fund the taliban?
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According to this article. The biggest percent of funding to goes to the Taliban comes from UK.
I don't know if its true or not, but I horrified to think it might be,
I don't know if its true or not, but I horrified to think it might be,
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I thought it was blatently obvious.
I am shocked, and disturbed by that.
Really?
I don't know what else to say TBH. I thought it was common knowlege.
Along with public funding you also have Governements and Govt agencies fund terrorist organizations as well as funding coups against small foreign Governments. We also had McDonalds (yes the one with that big stupid clown) funding the IRA via Noraid.
So it comes to no surprise that many people who live in the UK are funding the Taliban and the like.
lol I think I must just close my eyes to these things!! Live in my little happy bubble.
Sad thing is there is nothing we can really do about it!
Reds under the beds for the 21st century.
TBH I wish I could go back inside my bubble.
It's a big, bad, scary world out there and TBH I wish I could ignore it all.
Yes this was my first thought. I do believe there are some people that will give their money to these people, but its a big claim to say that most of their funding comes from muslims in the UK.
They are still hiding out in the mountains and doing IMO cowardly attacks, so they can't be that well off.
I think I just have a bad habbit of turning a blind eye until it affects me. I like to sort out immediate problems rather than worry about what might be.
I'm pretty sure most of their funding comes from Pakistan.
You have to remember who the Taliban were making these claims to.
Also depends on the level of the funding, if they only get £20 a year and £15 quid of that comes from the UK that would come under his claim
True a comment like that can install a level of mistrust! I imagine thats what they want!
Exactly where from Pakistan? Pakistan is on its knees after the earthquake, the floods and the war on terror. Yes, Pakistan has its extreme radical groups that most likely do support the Afghani Tabliban, but Pakistan as a state, doesn't endorse or sponsor terrorisim. I would imagine they're being funded by some extreme groups around the world who, somewhat idiotically, align themeselves with their cause.
Probably some extreme idiots.
I wasn't implying that the Pakistan government was funding them
The article itself actually states no governing body funds them its individual groups that give the funding.
Nor did I say you were, but the original Afghnai Taliban was helped in creation by sorts by Bhutto's liberal government at that time.
Individual groups in the UK?
I would imagine it's a combination of both.
No we didn't - that's one of the great urban myths of our time.
On topic - the Taliban are hardly likely to say "We get very little money from the UK, and actually there is no chance of us successfully carrying out an operation in the foreseeable future". I've no doubt that some funds from the UK find their way there, but unless the Taliban open their accounts to scutiny, I'll take their claims with a pinch of salt. I would suggest that drugs/extortion and other criminal acts are their main source of funds.
From the article:
Oh stop playing the eye-blinking innocent moralist.
This is worse than the guy who didn't know prison officers were in on smuggling as much as the inmates.
What sort of perpetually brainwashed country do we live in? What ever happened to opening our eyes and smelling the coffee, or using common sense?
Sheeesh!! :rolleyes:
Same here. I was reading an article about the poppy fields in Afghanistan earlier and how it's becoming impossible to destroy any significant number of them due to many things such as Taliban protection.
I have no doubt they get some money from the UK but most? I don't know about that (unless they're counting British heroin addicts)
I am not playing at anything, I was genuinely shocked by that! And you can have your :rolleyes: back:cool:
If anything like that genuinely shocks you, then you need to take that blindfold off and move out of the cave you clearly live in