How the Taliban Keep Their Coffers Full

"In just a few minutes, a Taliban commander collects nearly US$12,000 from sympathizers among the vast Pashtun community in the Pakistani city of Karachi - enough to fuel the insurgency in his district in Afghanistan for six months. More money will flow in from cash-rich Afghan tribespeople whose trade links stretch to the United Arab Emirates, Japan and Europe. There are no paper trails or banks involved, and the US's high-tech efforts to cut the Taliban's funding are thus no match for the ?unschooled wisdom? of traditional, tribal economics."