KABUL -- At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan's capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to a Sunday Times investigation.

Afghan intelligence and Taliban sources have told the newspaper that the firms, set up in the past six months, provide cash for a network of district Taliban treasurers to pay battlefield expenses and bonuses for killing the enemy and destroying their vehicles.

The Iranian companies win contracts to supply materials and logistics to Afghans involved in reconstruction. The money often comes in the form of aid from foreign donors.

Profits are transferred through poorly regulated Afghan banks — including Kabul Bank, which is partly owned by President Hamid Karzai’s brother Mahmood — to Tehran and Dubai.

From these countries, the money returns to Afghanistan through the informal Islamic banking system known as hawala to be dispersed to the Taliban.

"This means the companies involved in funding the insurgency can cover their tracks easily. It makes it harder for us to trace the cashflow," a senior Afghan intelligence official said.

Iranian companies have been established with the intention of winning contracts funded by foreign aid so that donors’ cash could be channeled into the insurgency, the official said. Western officials believe the network may have been set up by the Al-Quds force, an elite branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

The Iranian embassy in Kabul refused to respond to the allegations. But according to the Taliban treasurer, who has been interviewed by The Sunday Times, Iran is paying bonuses of $1,000 for killing an American soldier and $6,000 for destroying a U.S. military vehicle.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/05/report-iran-pays-taliban-kill-troops/

Ok, it's time to start playing with Iran. If President Bush were still in office this would be handled. Any country aiding the Taliban and AQ needs to be dealt with.

Now we have hard proof of what we have known all along, Iran is supporting the Taliban and AQ financially and with weapons and "Freedon Fighters". Between this and their Nuclear Bomb quest we need to go in there and force a regime change and hit all their military and nuclear sites.

Then bring all of the heads of the current Government to the Hague to be tries for Human Rights Violations and War Crimes.

People don't know that Iran does this??? Oh dear....I'm glad you posted this. There are a few countries that do...

Yea, but we need to take them out, NOW!

I read no PROOF that Iranian government is involved, I read an accusation,,,,,,,

There are even Mosques in the US that have been outed for financing terror.

Would somebody please let Mister Obama know about this ... ?

He wont care.

That would be funny if it wasn't so true!

You should talk to Ekle he was actually over there and witnessed this stuff first hand.

big f'n deal LP not like your govt does the same thing. When america stops trying to tell other countries what to do, there's no debate on this sort of topic.

My Government? Las time I checked you live here to.

It's nice to hear that we are fighting for the person or two who take(s) advantage of our beautiful continent. Whatever mistakes our country and govt has made, we can proudly say that we do not high jack planes and drive them in to buildings with innocent and unsuspecting people inside, and even if we did, we didn't push for a Catholic church to be built near the site.
You know if we were so racist, would we aid Haiti? would we aid in the Pakistan floods?? come on now. You have shifted this topic in to a debate about the styles of mistakes a leader has made. Do you know what the world would be like without western influences? I do! Our women would be in burkas or whatever, we would stone people to death, still have public executions and lets not forget the right to slap your lady around...oh yea that's awesome!


As for the Iranians, I have to be careful in what I can say. What I can tell you is that we all know that Israel is allied to us, and Iran isn't allied with Israel..so to me this is as simple as 1+1. One thing that I can confirm with clarity is that these militant have strongholds all over the middle east ranging from Palestine, through Iraq, Syria, Iran etc. DING DING end of round 1

I think he wants the world to conform to the Muslim religion and the extremists, or as he says "Freedom Fighters".

I know you can't say much because you were there and you know more about what's going on then you can say.

What i can say is that guys' comments make me wonder if he is the founding father of Taliban America......calling them freedom fighters on a north American site is the height of ignorance and stupidity. That's ok though, maybe a quick call to command for a little investigation of a Taliban sympathizer. I'm questioning these comments of his pretty strongly to be honest. They truly concern me.

Well, you would know better then me what to look for, but they make me wonder to. I think we scared him off though

it's the skull bandanna lol.. it's ALWAYS the skull bandanna

Bump

This is a Huge deal.. Pansies as yorself are quick to blame you have not a clue.