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To: bentway who wrote (616051)	6/13/2011 11:06:40 PM
From: Les H	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1580731

It may be much higher than $50 million/Taliban. Most of the fighers are purportedly members of tribes who are fighting because they oppose foreign occupation and the rule of the Northern Alliance warlords. The number of Taliban in Afghanistan may be as little as 26,000. An investigation reveals the number of Taliban captured by US military vastly overstated The number of Taliban members captured in Afghanistan may have been vastly overstated, according to data obtained by investigative journalist Gareth Porter. Porter found ninety percent of Afghan detainees purported to be captured Taliban fighters by the U.S. military were actually civilians, and were released shortly after capture. Michael Lawson spoke with Porter about his findings. fsrn.org