Afghan Taliban war chest filled with drug and organized crime revenue, Pakistani intelligence money, and donations from Middle East oil trade
Ratan Sen
Oct. 19, 2009

Wherte does Afghan Taliban get their money from? They are running a sophisticated financial network to pay for their insurgent operations, raising hundreds of millions of dollars from the illicit drug trade, kidnappings, extortion and foreign donations that American officials say they are struggling to cut off.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban have imposed an elaborate system to tax the cultivation, processing and shipment of opium, as well as other crops like wheat grown in the territory they control, American and Afghan officials say.

Above all their war chest is getting filled with Pakistani ISI money, and massive donations from the Middle East oil trade.

The CIA recently estimated in a classified report that Taliban leaders and their associates had received $106 million in the past year from donors outside Afghanistan.

American intelligence officials say they suspect that Pakistani intelligence operatives continue to give some financial aid to the Afghan Taliban, a practice the Pakistani government denies.

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