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Italy abruptly denies paying off Taliban in Afghanistan
Oct 15 2009, Angelo

The Italian government denied a newspaper report Thursday that its secret services paid the Taliban thousands of dollars to keep an area in Afghanistan controlled by the Italians safe.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s office called the report in the Times..

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