<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/12ae0f49-0656-40f5-855e-f243f57f7e59/7E62AE51-C485-41E4-9ACF-D94207C37F82/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6337019/Italy-denies-report-it-paid-off-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6337019/Italy-denies-report-it-paid-off-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6337019/Italy-denies-report-it-paid-off-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html"><H1>Italy denies report it paid off Taliban in Afghanistan </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6337019/Italy-denies-report-it-paid-off-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html"><H2>The Italian secret service paid Taliban fighters tens of thousands of dollars not to attack its forces in Afghanistan in a strategy that could have led to the deaths of ten French paratroopers, it has been claimed. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6337019/Italy-denies-report-it-paid-off-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html"><P> Military officials told The Times newspaper that the Italians had been paying the money to local insurgent commanders in Surobi, east of Kabul, to avoid politically-damaging Italian casualties. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6337019/Italy-denies-report-it-paid-off-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html"><P> A month after the Italian troops departed, a lightly armed French patrol was ambushed and surrounded by an estimated 170 fighters. Ten paratroopers were killed and 21 wounded in the bloodiest day for the French forces in 25 years. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6337019/Italy-denies-report-it-paid-off-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html"><P> According to the paper, US intelligence officials first discovered through intercepted phone calls that the payments had been made in Herat, western Afghanistan, then later discovered the tactic was being used in Surobi, 40 miles from the capital. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7E62AE51-C485-41E4-9ACF-D94207C37F82/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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