'Afghan-Taliban's intricate fundraising system almost impossible to track'.Byline: ANI Kabul, Sep. 27 (ANI): The financial support system for the Taliban insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. in Afghanistan is so intricate that it is almost impossible to track and choke off the movement's money supply, US and Afghan officials have said. Notwithstanding the earlier perception that Afghanistan's booming opium trade is the largest source of cash for the Taliban, the Obama administration officials say that it is foreign donations that support the insurgency most. Other sections of the fundraising apparatus, which generates cash are- criminal rackets rackets Game for two or four players with ball and racket on a four-walled court. Rackets is played with a hard ball in a relatively large court (approximately 9 × 18 m), unlike the related games of squash and racquetball. , taxes, shakedowns, protection money etc., The Washington Post reports. The CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). recently estimated that Taliban leaders See also: List of alleged Al-Qaida members Leaders, Ministers and Deputy Ministers Leaders, Ministers and Deputy Ministers (italicized and bold name indicates captured or killed by U.S. and their allies received 106 million dollars in 2008 from donors outside Afghanistan. For the past decade, the U.S. Treasury U.S. Treasury Created in 1798, the United States Department of the Treasury is the government (Cabinet) department responsible for issuing all Treasury bonds, notes and bills. Some of the government branches operating under the U.S. Treasury umbrella include the IRS, U.S. and the U.N. Security Council have maintained financial blacklists of suspected donors to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Richard Barrett, of the United Nations' Taliban and al-Qaeda Monitoring Team, said: "Taliban sympathizers are much more skilful today at masking their donations and ensuring that the money cannot be traced back to them." "It's been very, very difficult to identify these people. You can track the money flow and say this money came from the Gulf, but it's a lot more difficult to confirm the source," Barrett added. Earlier, Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard C. Holbrooke, had said the Taliban was reaping the bulk of its revenue from donors abroad, especially from Pakistan. The US officials suspect that Pakistani military and intelligence operatives are continuing to fund the Afghan insurgency, although the Islamabad government denies this. U.S. officials said that it was difficult to estimates Taliban's overall cash flow because the insurgency is a "decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. movement comprising many factions and commanders". But annual revenue is thought to total hundreds of millions of dollars. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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