Source: World Tribune
16 DEC 2010
LONDON -_Afghan rebels aligned with Al Qaida have been using the United Arab Emirates to raise funds to sustain their war against NATO.
A State Department report asserted that Taliban was raising millions of dollars in the UAE to maintain the insurgency war in Afghanistan. The U.S. embassy cable said Taliban agents have identified and intimidated Afghan and Pakistani migrants in the Gulf Cooperation Council emirates.
"The lack of effective border controls on cash is no doubt exploited by Taliban couriers and Afghan drug lords, camouflaged among traders, businessmen and migrant workers," the cable from the U.S. embassy in Abu Dhabi said in September 2009.
