{"id":6510,"date":"2015-03-14T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2015-03-14T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:02:07","slug":"how-the-cia-gave-al-qaeda-1-million-and-what-that-money-was-used-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6510","title":{"rendered":"How The CIA Gave Al-Qaeda $1 Million, And What That Money Was Used For"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-14\/how-cia-gave-al-qaeda-1-million-and-what-money-was-used\" target=\"_blank\">How The CIA Gave Al-Qaeda $1 Million, And What That Money Was Used For<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As the US and key stakeholders in the Middle East debate the best way to leverage the fight against ISIS in the service of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-02-03\/another-conspiracy-theory-becomes-fact-entire-oil-collapse-all-about-crushing-russia\">larger geopolitical agenda<\/a>, a\u00a0<em>NY Times<\/em>\u00a0piece out today serves as a reminder (in case recent events haven\u2019t made it clear enough) of just how pervasive examples of Western foreign policy blowback have become. As\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0reports,\u00a0<strong>some $1 million in cash funneled to the Afghan government by the CIA ended up in the hands of al Qaeda who, after consulting with Bin Laden, promptly used the money to purchase weapons.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/15\/world\/asia\/cia-funds-found-their-way-into-al-qaeda-coffers.html\">NY Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><em>In the spring of 2010, Afghan officials struck a deal to free an Afghan diplomat held hostage by Al Qaeda. But the price was steep \u2014 $5 million \u2014 and senior security officials were scrambling to come up with the money.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>They first turned to a secret fund that the Central Intelligence Agency bankrolled with monthly cash deliveries to the presidential palace in Kabul, according to several Afghan officials involved in the episode. The Afghan government, they said, had already squirreled away about $1 million from that fund.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Within weeks, that money and $4 million more provided from other countries was handed over to Al Qaeda, replenishing its coffers<\/strong>\u00a0after a relentless C.I.A. campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan had decimated the militant network\u2019s upper ranks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How The CIA Gave Al-Qaeda $1 Million, And What That Money Was Used For As the US and key stakeholders in the Middle East debate the best way to leverage the fight against ISIS in the service of a\u00a0larger geopolitical agenda, a\u00a0NY Times\u00a0piece out today serves as a reminder (in case recent events haven\u2019t made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,23,4102,135,4175,536,1921],"class_list":["post-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-al-qaeda","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-kabul","tag-money","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}