The Iraqi insurgency has cash

Mostly from skimming off oil profits with the help from complicit Iraqi officials, but there’s a little help from the Europeans:

As much as $36 million a year comes from ransoms paid for hundreds of kidnap victims, the report says. It estimates that unnamed foreign governments — previously identified by American officials as including France and Italy — paid $30 million in ransom last year.

That’s $30 million to kill American soldiers. Thank you, NATO “allies.”