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Warsaw, 13 November 2010 - INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUNDING IS FINDING ITS WAY TO THE INSURGENCY, EXPERT SAYS

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As much as half of the Taliban’s funds come indirectly from money being poured into Afghanistan by the international community, an expert told the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on Saturday 13 November.

Nine years to the day after NATO troops launched the assault on Kabul which toppled the Taliban, journalist and broadcaster Akbar Ayazi said that 50 per cent of the insurgents’ money could be traced back to NATO and other Western countries’ efforts.

“The money and the resources are not going to the right people,” said Ayazi, the region’s associate broadcasting director of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, in a presentation to the Assembly’s Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security. Afghanistan had been “taken hostage” by power brokers at all levels of government, who were absorbing a large proportion of the resources from the international community, he said.

NATO and others should limit their use of intermediaries, who tend to siphon off the majority of the funds before they reach the contractors who actually carry out the translation, construction or other work commissioned by the international actors, he said.

 
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