Taleban get payed to allow resupplying of Western troops

[Skybird]

This says more about the tactical situation on the ground than a thousand analytical comments.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5327683.ece

The West is indirectly funding the insurgency in Afghanistan thanks to a system of payoffs to Taleban commanders who charge protection money to allow convoys of military supplies to reach Nato bases in the south of the country.
Contracts to supply British bases and those of other Western forces with fuel, supplies and equipment are held by multinational companies.
However, the business of moving supplies from the Pakistani port of Karachi to British, US and other military contingents in the country is largely subcontracted to local trucking companies. These must run the gauntlet of the increasingly dangerous roads south of Kabul in convoys protected by hired gunmen from Afghan security companies.
The Times has learnt that it is in the outsourcing of convoys that payoffs amounting to millions of pounds, including money from British taxpayers, are given to the Taleban

"Trapped in the Afghan maze."

Personally, I find the mere fact that the military these days does no longer supplies itself or runs the transportation, but engages private contractors to supply them, hair-raising.

[Reece]

That's down right scary!! Even worse than Australia selling the Electricity commision to China, if we went to war with them they would turn off our power ... Damn, no more Subsim!!

[Diopos]

Interesting! A military effort without securing its supply lines! Time to "nationalise" military operational planning again! :hmm:

What can I say!

[bookworm_020]

You would think that they would see it as a great chance to do some damage to the Taleban, by getting them to comae and attack the convoys, they could bring them out in the open and do some damage to them? I guess they have other plans.....

That's down right scary!! Even worse than Australia selling the Electricity commision to China, if we went to war with them they would turn off our power ... Damn, no more Subsim!!

Time to buy a generator!

[subchaser12]

So, can we arrest those involved for funding terrorists? That's exactly what they are doing.

Truth is stranger than fiction...

[Kipparikalle]

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[Skybird]

Originally Posted by subchaser12

So, can we arrest those involved for funding terrorists? That's exactly what they are doing.

Truth is stranger than fiction...

That is as likely as a check of whether or not the Christian western armies live by the principles outlined in the sermon on the mount.