Sentence examples for warlords money from inspiring English sources

It would also end the convoy-protection payments that NATO makes to Taliban-linked warlords, money that ends up buying weapons used against our troops in Afghanistan.

Western Afghanistan has been a concern for American forces in Afghanistan, not so much for the activities of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, but for the possibility of interference from neighboring Iran, which shares a long border with Afghanistan and which has supported factions led by some warlords with money and weapons.

Washington also accuses Tehran of seeking to destabilize Afghanistan by supplying chosen warlords there with money and weapons, and says fleeing Taliban or Al Qaeda fighters have found safe haven here.

Nor any means to manage brutally complicated Afghan politics, including: Pashtuns versus smaller ethnic groups, Pashtun ties over the "Durand line" into Pakistan, divisions among Pashtuns (particularly Durranis versus Ghilzais), rural religious conservatives versus urban religious liberals, and sundry regional warlords battling for money and control.

The government said it saw the truce as a way to separate what it considered to be more approachable militants, like Mr. Muhammad, from hard-line Taliban leaders like Maulana Fazlullah, his son-in-law, who is a young warlord flush with money and weapons.

An exasperated Mr. Karzai publicly threatened to resign and announced that his government had run out of money because warlords were hoarding the customs revenues.

We hear about this or that unit making headway somewhere, and then we read that much of this has been accomplished by paying the equivalent of protection money to warlords, strengthening them and serving ends that are mysterious.

The warlords are using the money now to finance their war against Russia.

Thanks to the American tax money, these warlords are now all multi-millionaires who reportedly send annually at least $1 billion, gained as graft or scavenged from Western donors to their private accounts outside the country.

It's the advocacy work of groups like Jewish World Watch that has driven legislation to demilitarize mines in Congo and pushed companies such as Intel to develop conflict-free products, depriving warlords of the blood money that they need to murder.

The same warlords who print their own money are not likely to turn over cash from local taxes and license fees.