Daily Rotten Archives September 18, 2001 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Bush Gave $43M to Taliban Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: Soylent Primarily because of the Taliban's assistance with the drug war -- they have virtually eliminated opium production from Afghanistan -- George W. Bush gave $43M assistance to the Taliban, even though it was harboring fugitive Osama bin Laden at the time. This wasn't a while back, it was just four months ago. Read article... Nuclear Plants Next Target The Nation | Submitted by: Soylent "Our [Russian] security services are warning the United States that what happened on Tuesday is just the beginning, and that the next target of the terrorists will be an American nuclear facility." Read article... Name that Operation Parameters | Submitted by: Soylent "Do you want your grandchildren to say you were in [Operation] Blue Spoon?" This article from the U.S. Army War College journal Parameters explores the naming of military operations. Read article...