Taliban win £1,600 bounty for each Nato soldier killed

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Source: Times UK







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From The Sunday Times
May 23, 2010

Taliban win £1,600 bounty for each Nato soldier killed
Miles Amoore



TALIBAN rebels are earning a bounty of up to 200,000 Pakistani rupees (£1,660) for each Nato soldier they kill, according to insurgent commanders.

The money is said to come from protection rackets, taxes imposed on opium farmers, donors in the Gulf states who channel money through Dubai and from the senior Taliban leadership in Pakistan.

So far this year 213 Nato soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, including 41 British troops, bringing the potential rewards for the Taliban to £350,000. .................

Some analysts believe reintegration fails to address the underlying causes of the insurgency in thousands of villages that are among the worst afflicted. “Reintegration addresses the symptoms rather than the disease itself,” said Matt Waldman, a Harvard analyst

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7133976.ece

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We are so screwed!

[dipsydoodle]

1. Blimey

When they're on special offer they're only five for a £1 over here.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. I remember reading about the early days of the Afghan war...

where the U.S. put a bounty on Taliban and Al Qaeda, and paid in God's own green backs. It makes me wonder if George W. Bush is now running the Taliban from a secret lair in Texas.

[kitfalbo]

3. setup

Figure out how long it takes them to pay the bounty then fake a whole bunch of deaths.

[formercia]

4. New bumpersticker:

Martyrs do it for free.

[DCBob]

5. We should offer double for an insurgent commander...

Let them do the dirty work.. then we can send our soldiers home.

[David__77]

7. "We" offer far more than that.

But, that said, why wouldn't the Afghan people try to ward off occupation? They did it with the Soviets too.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Take out Dubai

[David__77]

8. What do you mean "take out?"

Kill every adult, child, and baby, or what?

[lunatica]

9. But I thought they were purists who do it for Allah!

75 virgins must not have the appeal it once had.

[tuckessee]

10. Sounds like BS.

I doubt the Taliban has the jack to pay up.

Either it's Taliban BS to induce locals to kill NATO troops or it's NATO propaganda to make the Taliban look bad.

Now, if they gave away cheap pot metal tokens attatched to gaudy ribbons for doing the same we'd have to tip our hats to them.

[rug]

11. Given the monthly cost of the war, NATO and the US are paying more, per capita.

[scentopine]

12. Isn't the free market great? I swear this form of govt. is the ultimate goal of tea party -nt

[KG]

13. this one time, my friends' uncles' cousin saw a black lady get out of a caddy go buy groceries with

food stamps. it's true! :eyes: