Italy denies paying off Taliban
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Posted: October 16, 2009 at 3:23 a.m.
Abdullah Abdullah, an Afghan presidential candidate and the top rival of President Hamid Karzai, arrives at a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday.
Italy and NATO on Thursday 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.
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