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Al-Qaeda 'faces funding crisis'
BBC ^ | October 13, 2009

Posted on 10/13/2009 7:10:46 PM PDT by nuconvert

Al-Qaeda is in its worst financial state for many years while the Taliban's funding is flourishing, according to the US Treasury.

Senior Treasury official David Cohen said al-Qaeda had made several appeals for funds already this year.

The influence of the network - damaged by US efforts to choke funding - is waning, he said.

The Taliban, meanwhile, are in better financial shape, bolstered by Afghanistan's booming trade in drugs.

According to Mr Cohen, the al-Qaeda leadership has already warned that a lack of funds was hurting the group's recruitment and training efforts.

"We assess that al-Qaeda is in its weakest financial condition in several years and that, as a result, its influence is waning," Mr Cohen said from Washington.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; bailout; moneytrail; overseascontingency; porkulus; stimulus; taliban; wot
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1 posted on 10/13/2009 7:10:47 PM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
Al-Qaeda 'faces funding crisis'

Obama bailout on the horizon? ;-)

2 posted on 10/13/2009 7:12:58 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: nuconvert

Will the Democrats do a telethon and bake sale for them?


3 posted on 10/13/2009 7:13:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
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Never fear A-Q... obama and his anti-American socialist cronies in Congress will no-doubt back off and help you out. Heck, they may even bail you out with US Taxpayer money.


4 posted on 10/13/2009 7:13:42 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: nuconvert

Acorn to the rescue...oh wait a minute they have problems too. Dan’s bake sale?


5 posted on 10/13/2009 7:19:58 PM PDT by killermosquito (Buffalo (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bernie Madoff financially ruined many of the the Taliban’s primary donors.


6 posted on 10/13/2009 7:20:54 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: nuconvert

LOL! Sounds like the Guardian/BBC are almost worried.


7 posted on 10/13/2009 7:26:31 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ($$$$$OBAMA MONEY!!!$$$$$ /s)
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To: nuconvert

Napalm the poppy fields....


8 posted on 10/13/2009 7:27:42 PM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pelosi will lead the telethon with her twin Boxer.


9 posted on 10/13/2009 7:27:47 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Al-Qaeda is in its worst financial state for many years while the Taliban's funding is flourishing, according to the US Treasury. Senior Treasury official David Cohen said al-Qaeda had made several appeals for funds already this year.
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10 posted on 10/13/2009 7:28:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Interesting. What about Bin Laden’s money? Run dry has it?


11 posted on 10/13/2009 7:29:34 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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Are we 100% sure that there isn’t any funding for them in the Porkulus bill?


12 posted on 10/13/2009 7:36:23 PM PDT by The Chief (Volunteer Fire Fighter since 1989, 20+ years!)
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Well, I’m making a serious effort this year to heat with wood and wood pellets and save as much home heating fuel as possible. Even if I don’t save much money with oil prices dropping, at least I can starve a few Arabs.


13 posted on 10/13/2009 7:47:26 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Keep funding the Taliban - Support the Drug War!


14 posted on 10/13/2009 7:50:40 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: nuconvert

Just funnel some of the stimulus money.


15 posted on 10/13/2009 8:01:42 PM PDT by libh8er
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Is it true top Al-Qaeda people “get off” on watching films of Muslim children being blown up in cars? Maybe they could raise money selling those tapes to fellow pedophile/perverts...


16 posted on 10/13/2009 8:05:14 PM PDT by GOPJ (Nominated:Chamberlain, Hitler, Stalin. Winners: Arafat,Carter, Gore, Obama.(Nobel Prizes of Shame))
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Ruh-roh ... better get ACORN.
17 posted on 10/13/2009 8:40:29 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: nuconvert

Call Soros...


18 posted on 10/13/2009 8:50:35 PM PDT by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: nuconvert

The people, and the military will be up in arms against BHO if he sends them a porkulus package.


19 posted on 10/14/2009 1:14:33 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: doc1019

Perhaps they could sell off their virgins to raise some funds?


20 posted on 10/14/2009 4:46:20 AM PDT by Merlinator (Take them all down...one czar at a time)
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