Saudi Arabia Caught Red-Handed Funding US Enemies In Afghanistan

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"It was not only the Saudis who would help us but people who would come from different countries. Saudi Arabia was the only country where I could meet them."

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Source/Credit: The Daily Caller
By Saagar Enjeti | December 6, 2016

The Taliban’s former financial minister regularly traveled to Saudi Arabia to raise millions of dollars, The New York Times reports.

After the U.S. invasion in 2001, finance minister Agha Jan Motasim fled to Pakistan to establish the still de-facto headquarters of the Taliban terrorist movement. Motasim told TheNYT he went to Saudi Arabia two or three times a year to raise millions of dollars in donations, traveling under the the guise of religious pilgrimage.

“It was not only the Saudis who would help us but people who would come from different countries,” Motasim said. “Saudi Arabia was the only country where I could meet them.” Motasim then moved the money to Afghanistan in a variety of ways, including smuggling solid gold bars into the country.

“When I was in government, not a single penny went to the Taliban,” former Saudi intelligence official and Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Turki al-Faisal, protested to TheNYT.




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