Afghanistan Islamic Supremacist Taliban to be “bought off” with $500 million
Media reports on the efforts to counter ideas with money, rather than challenge supremacist beliefs with our shared universal human rights:
Afghanistan: Taliban fighters to be ‘bought off’ with $500 million
– Afghanistan: Millions of dollars offered to wean away Taliban militants
– Trust fund for Taliban to quit fight
– Paying off the Taliban – Incentive or Bribe?
– Graphic showing billions of dollars of aid pledged
– CNN: “Your view: Negotiating with the Taliban”
Taliban reject peace talks
– In Advance of January 28 London Conference on Afghanistan, Senior Taliban Affairs Expert Rahimullah Yusufzai Says: ‘It Would Be Naïve to Assume That the Taliban Would Cut a Deal with the U.S…. On Terms More Favorable to Islamabad than to Their Leader Mullah Omar’
– Taliban issues statement on London conference
Meantime, while one part of the government seeks to give money to Taliban supremacists another part seeks to stop their “financing”:
Afghanistan: US Tsy Cohen: Working To Cripple Taliban Financing
– WSJ: “Treasury is leading an inter-agency effort to develop new initiatives to disrupt financing for extremist groups operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said”
– U.S. Treasury targets Taliban cash funding
Afghanistan: Supporters of the Islamic Supremacist Taliban
See also:
– September 24, 2009: Afghan women hiding for their lives
– August 31, 2009: Afghanistan: Taliban disfigure Muslims who dare to vote
– Afghan women victims of ‘widespread’ rape: UN
– New ‘poisoning’ hits 98 Afghan schoolgirls
– Afghanistan: Women Flee as Taliban Laws Return
– Afghanistan: supremacist law “legalizing rape”
– Accountability and Defying Islamic Supremacism
– October 17, 2008 – Jihad and the “Reconciliation” with Islamic Supremacism