Report: U.S. government funding al-Qaeda

Foreign policy on the world stage is quite the quagmire. For one moment, al-Qaeda is deemed the enemy, but then the terrorist organization is an ally. In another instance, ISIS is an ally against the Mossad regime, but now they are the depicted as the new face of fear.

This is why a non-interventionist foreign policy is a wise stance to take because who even knows who is the dragon to slay anymore?

Case in point, the New York Times published an interesting report over the weekend that discovered the U.S., British and other governments funded al-Qaeda, an organization that was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the 7/7 bombings. Remember, the entire farcical war on terror was initiated because of al-Qaeda.

The newspaper obtained this information from a letter written to Usama bin Laden in 2010 by Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, the group’s general manager.

Despite the U.S. and British governments denying that they pay ransoms, the tens of millions of dollars are allocated to al-Qaeda, which is then used to pay for weaponry and overall operations. In 2013 alone, the U.S. paid al-Qaeda $165 million. Millions more are funneled to al-Qaeda through the means of contractors working in Afghanistan.

Here is a breakdown as to what has been paid to this organization since 2008 by other nations:

• France: $58.1 Million
• Qatar and Oman: $20.4 Million
• Switzerland: $12.4 Million
• Spain: $11 Million
• Austria: $3.2 Million
• Undetermined Countries: $21.4 Million

As the CIA has continued to drop off bags of cash in Afghanistan, the newspaper writes: “The money was used to buy the loyalty of warlords, legislators and other prominent — and potentially troublesome — Afghans, helping the palace finance a vast patronage network that secured Mr. Karzai’s power base. It was also used to cover expenses that needed to be kept off the books, such as clandestine diplomatic trips, and for more mundane costs, including rent payments for the guesthouses where some senior officials lived.

“The cash flow has slowed since a new president, Ashraf Ghani, assumed office in September, Afghan officials said, refusing to elaborate. But they added that cash was still coming in, and that it was not clear how robust any current American constraints on it are.”

The same is now transpiring with ISIS. It has been well-documented – and even admitted by operatives – that the U.S. is funding ISIS. Yousif Al Salafi, a Pakistani commander of Islamic State of Daish, admitted to receiving funding from the U.S. Much of these rebels have actually been trained by U.S. personnel as part of operations against the Mossad government and were never meant to be used for Iraq.

It isn’t just the U.S. funding ISIS, but the Land of the Free’s allies, too.

Here is what Josh Rogin of the Daily Beast opines: “But in the years they were getting started, a key component of ISIS’s support came from wealthy individuals in the Arab Gulf States of Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Sometimes the support came with the tacit nod of approval from those regimes; often, it took advantage of poor money laundering protections in those states, according to officials, experts, and leaders of the Syrian opposition, which is fighting ISIS as well as the regime.”

Ostensibly, the U.S. is funding every single one of its enemies. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul better not say this on the campaign trail if he wishes to become U.S. president. Oh wait, he already did.