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Payments to Taliban: US confronted Italy
News 24 ^ | 8/12/11 | Staff

Posted on 08/13/2011 9:50:39 PM PDT by Nachum

Rome - Diplomatic cables showed the United States confronted Italy about claims it paid Taliban not to attack its troops in Afghanistan, noting it suffered fewer casualties than other forces, media reported on Friday. Italy has already denied claims that it paid protection money to Taliban and other militants in an area where 10 French soldiers were killed in an ambush in February 2008 soon after taking over from Italian forces. (Snip) "Unfortunately, the significance of this contribution has been undermined by Italy's growing reputation for avoiding combat and paying ransom and protection money.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; confronted; europeanunion; france; italy; libya; payments; taliban; waronterror
It's 3am and nobody's there
1 posted on 08/13/2011 9:50:49 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 08/13/2011 9:52:03 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
"Allies"

Let's end NATO now.

3 posted on 08/13/2011 9:56:10 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: Nachum
Well, unfortunately, when it comes to fighting, Italians aren't renowned to be the best. Have you ever watched the movie Mediterraneo ?
4 posted on 08/13/2011 10:00:04 PM PDT by AnyStreetFL (www.AnyStreet.org - Conservative Community Organizing, ACORN without the evil)
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To: Nachum

Europeans aren’t our friends.


5 posted on 08/13/2011 10:01:53 PM PDT by TwoSwords (The Lord is a man of war, Exodus 15:3)
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To: Nachum

Coalitions aren’t worth the time it takes to form them.


6 posted on 08/13/2011 10:06:41 PM PDT by mlocher (Is it time to cash in before I am taxed out?)
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To: Nachum

Weird headline.

Something like “US confronted Italy over alleged payments to Taliban” would have been clearer.


7 posted on 08/13/2011 10:09:30 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The same old games being played by the same old crowd in the formerly grand old party.)
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To: Nachum

who here thinks that the US is not
doing the same thing?


8 posted on 08/13/2011 10:17:31 PM PDT by 50gunsalute
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And in Iraq, they paid the terrorists an enormous amount of money to ransom a female Italian communist “journalist” who had been “kidnapped” by the terrorists—actually it was most likely a setup organized by the pro-terrorist journalist to raise funds for her allies. Then, in trying to sneak the released journalist out of the country, the Italians ran a US manned roadblock, getting one of their people shot and killed in the process. In a final piece of treachery, the Italians indicted the GI who had been left no choice but to fire at the car rushing the roadblock. The soldier, a National Guardsman from NYC, can never visit Italy or any other EU country, not that he probably would ever want to. With friends like these....
9 posted on 08/13/2011 10:18:45 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: EternalVigilance
Payments to Taliban: US confronted Italy

Perhaps they thought it was okay after seeing how we attack Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and arm them in Libya.

10 posted on 08/13/2011 10:23:21 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Nachum
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill

11 posted on 08/13/2011 10:25:25 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: TwoSwords

only in a obama world... he has done his best to destroy all relationships. Italians? Always been two faced on a global basis.


12 posted on 08/13/2011 10:30:26 PM PDT by himno hero (Obamarisk)
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To: Nachum

Wow! So now the Mafia is paying protection money...


13 posted on 08/14/2011 12:09:08 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: Nachum

Not surprised.


14 posted on 08/14/2011 2:22:22 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Nachum.
confronted Italy about claims it paid Taliban not to attack its troops in Afghanistan, noting it suffered fewer casualties than other forces
Zero and his gang of thugs is trying to change the subject.


15 posted on 08/14/2011 7:16:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: 50gunsalute
who here thinks that the US is not doing the same thing

Of course well, um ah oonly burning bibles and um ah letting the muslim B-hood walk into the WH with the kindess of a dhimmi state. Gotta stop but will it?

16 posted on 08/16/2011 1:55:46 PM PDT by Karliner ("If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, Obama would want to pal around with us, wouldn't he?")
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