Al Qaeda Running Short On Cash Support
A recession-driven income slide? Or a brand in terminal decline? Whatever the origin of its money worries, al-Qaida’s latest appeal for funds reveals a group struggling with a fall in donations for its attacks on the West.
In an audio message posted in militant web forums on June 10, 2009, the group’s leader in Afghanistan Mustafa Abu al-Yazid said militants were short of food, weapons and other supplies needed to fight foreign forces there.
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My first thought when I reda this item was that it was a propaganda ploy to illicit financial as well as operational support for the continued jihad against the West and its values by painting the organization as an overwhelmed underdog due to the lack of funds.
The article does not consider quantitatively the financial support AQ receives from its alliances with narcotics traffickers, state sponsors of terrorism and other illicit sources. Has anyone performed an analysis of the financial health of the cocaine and heroin industries and their association with AQ