Is the U.S. Funding the Taliban?

The U.S. has given Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf billions of dollars to fight Al-Quida and the Tailban. But Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid explains that: much of that money has gone to arm and finance the Taliban; how the CIA pays Pakistan to arrest al-Qaeda operatives, but Pakistan uses the money to fund the Taliban resurgence in northwest Pakistan; and how the U.S. and NATO’s failure to deal with Afghan civil society has led directly to the huge rise of the opium trade that funds the Taliban.
For more see: Killing Ourselves and Return of the Taliban



Video Length 6 min 20 sec