UK citizens funding Taliban
LONDON — Taliban insurgents say the bulk of the money it uses to fight off American and British forces in remote parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan come from the United Kingdom.
A report released Thursday by the British-based Sky News Channel revealed Taliban insurgents rely heavily upon money donated to them from individuals, organizations and mosques in other countries to fight holy wars known as Jihads.
"We get donations from our Muslim brothers in Britain for Jihad," an unidentified Taliban commander told Sky News journalists Stuart Ramsay. "We are not like a government, we depend on individuals."
The Taliban leader went on to say that insurgents live within the borders of Britain and are "waiting for our orders" to carry out terrorist attacks. The leader also said attacks are imminent within other European countries and the United States.
Ramsay, who is on assignment in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul along with photographer John McAndrew, said on the morning program 'Sunrise' that the Taliban "likes to exaggerate," but that the Taliban leader's remarks coincide with similar comments made by other officials in the past.
Homeland security departments in many European countries and the United States have warned citizens visiting or living in Europe of a future impending terrorist attack based on recent intelligence. It's unclear if that intelligence is related to the threat made by Taliban officials in the report released Thursday.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/ktxl-news-talibanuk1021,0,1207087.story
This is why I am against easy immigration and asylum. We have given countless Afghanis and Pakistanis asylum over the past 20 years and this is the result. There are always going to be SOME (NOT ALL) who abuse our largesse. It's one thing to be against the war in Afghanistan, but it's another to work against our own national interests and troops. It's people like this who are causing the erosion of our rights to privacy and personal freedoms.
So here is my question: How can we change our immigration process so we will be protected from those whose intention is to harm us or change the nature of our government altogether (such as make it conform to alien religious rules and culture)?
Like one of my friends always use to say, the best way to make the English bend over backwards and serve your cause is to call him 'racist' for not supporting what you want. The 'White Man's Guilt' syndrome fuelling the PC brigade.
Its definitely time to take a stand or witness the empire (or the country rather) being taken over by the erstwhile colonies. Poetic Justice? I dont think so. You cant avenge history.
Btw, i still cant understand what prevents UK's Internal revenue/Income Tax dept from tracking such money sent abroad to targets who are supposedly under the intelligence radar. Probably its sent under the guise of 'aid'? Whoever believes that money sent to Afpak under whatever name wont be used for terrorist activities has their heads buried deep under.
Only thing anyone can do for Afpak is to seal their boundaries to the outer world and let things boil over and explode and perhaps afterwards go with a brush n broom to wipe the spill. no amount of aid is going to do the trick; its only gonna worsen the problem.
But then, the armaments industry still needs to survive, doesnt it?
England need a strong leader.. It's depressing to read the news from there these days. Almost all Brits I know are fed up..
When you are funding a group which seeks to harm our interests and military personnel, or worse undermine our life at home as we know it. And I agree with mmyke, this is the payback for our foreign policy and immigration/asylum policies of the past 20 years or so.
Medohaqatar, there is no room for jihad (except for the loosest interpretation of it as a struggle to manage your human tendencies against your religious obligation) in the UK. We are not an Islamic state and once the practice of your religion steps on other peoples' toes it needs to be set straight. Of course, our PC twats are afraid of being called racist by certain groups of people and have given them carte blanche to oppress the rest of us. I pray I live long enough to see my country find its bollocks again.
BTW this is the real picture now>>>>Britain will cut 490,000 jobs over the next four years, the government said on Wednesday, as part of an 80 billion-pound (USD 125 billion) cut in public spending.My relatives have lost jobs or never got visa transfered and now back to square one.God save them.
very bad
earlier i thought that its only US & UK, French, Dutch, Canadian and Italian forces who are paying to Taliban for their safe journey inside Afghanistan.
Only if, any of the funds are specifically used for funding acts of terrorism. Just buying a weapon to defend their mosque or family from anyone wishing them harm could be Jihad (a religious duty of Muslims) I would imagine that only if they use the money for weapons or training or anything purchased with the funds (food, air tickets etc) in a covert way to commit acts of terrorism against the UK could this be classed as Treason, and then only treason if the UK person making the initial donation was aware of it's intended purpose. They may think they are helping people to undertake the Hajj.
But then I know nothing
i don't like terrorism...
simply treason.
Europe is paying the price for welcoming certain profiles and treating them as equals to the point of giving them passports!
isn't this treason?
cherukhan : so youre saying that the people donating for jihad all these years were cheated ? and the people who continue to do so do not know as well, and they dont ask?
simply put, they are still an accessory to the crime being committed.
The Irish in the US were once the main funders for the IRA, amazing when you think most of them had never even been to Ireland.
just think of the possibility, these people could be able to afford to donate by benefit fraud or because they don't need the level of benefit they are correctly entitled to or even they are civil servant or work in the public sector. Therefore the UK Government is possibly funding these people themselves (indirectly) to fight against the British forces.
How do we change, bring in sponsorship laws, and the sponsor is responsible, only let them in if they have a job, make them get NOC's for everything and don't let them leave without an exit permit.
The donation is given for jihad and not for terrorism. Jihad is misinterpreted and is totally different from what they are doing.