CIA Funded The Al Qaeda

In 2010, the CIA seems to have "inadvertently" funded al Qaeda with millions, according to documents declassified at a trial of a suspected terrorist. Afghan officials used the funds as a ransom payment, according to sputniknews.

Hence, US funds have been routed through the CIA into the Middle East and are being used against the US!

Some critics are indignant that the US simply does not seem to learn from its past mistakes. In spite of having nurtured and encouraged Taliban in Afghanistan to counter the Soviet factions in the pre-WTC attacks, it still continues to fund some faction or the other, and ultimately suffers the consequences.

During a trial of Abid Naseer, a Pakistani al Qaeda operative who was arrested and convicted in Brooklyn, for supporting terrorism and hatching a plot to bomb a British shopping center, some correspondence was obtained by federal authorities. Documents were obtained in a raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by Seal Team Six, which helped to kill the most wanted man in the US.

Afghanistan used the funds to get back one of their diplomats who had been captured by the al Qaeda. As the ransom of $5 million demanded for Abdul Khaliq Farahi, Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan, was set at too high a level for Kabul, they raided a bank account that held the CIA money to make cash payments to the president, Hamid Karzai, who was a US ally.

A series of drone campaigns had reduced and decimated the ranks of the al Qaeda. However, the funds gave a new lease of life to the organisationh, and contributed to the purchase of new weapons.

 "Allah blessed us with a good amount of money this month," al Qaeda official Atiyah Abd al-Rahman wrote in a letter to Osama bin Laden.

In his reply, Bin Laden warned that the funds could be a CIA trap and the money could have been poisoned, or radiated, or implanted with a tracking device. He said that the funds could be exchanged for other currencies twice at two banks.

The CIA's contribution to showed how the United States, largely because of "poor oversight and loose financial controls", has sometimes funded the militants that it is fighting, according to nytimes.

Hence, although the US does not pay ransoms, which has led to a lot of beheadings and killings by the Islamic State, most of the money and weapons the US has given to Middle East "allies", such as the Karzai government, seem to reach the body that the US is fighting.

However, even though they understood that the funds were being misused, the CIA continued to drop cash bags at the presidential palace every month until President Hamid Karzai withdrew from power last year.