November 28, 2006
US Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself
If accurate," the report says, its estimates indicate that these "sources of terrorist and insurgent finance within Iraq - independent of foreign sources - are currently sufficient to sustain the groups' existence and operation." To this, it adds what may be its most surprising conclusion: "In fact, if recent revenue and expense estimates are correct, terrorist and insurgent groups in Iraq may have surplus funds with which to support other terrorist organizations outside of Iraq."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112606Z.shtml
By John F. Burns and Kirk Semple | New York Times
~For the hell of it compare insurgent finances above to what it costs US taxpayers to fund the American military fighting them in Iraq... based on Congressional appropriations. (National Priorities Project)
[photo google: "cost of iraq war"]