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Italy denies paying Taliban to keep peace in Afghan area

ROME - Italy and NATO yesterday denied a newspaper report that Italian intelligence secretly paid the Taliban thousands of dollars to keep the peace in an Afghan area under Italian control. Full Article at Boston Globe

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