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Pakistan aided Taliban, reports allege

By MARK MAZZETTI, JANE PERLEZ, ERIC SCHMITT AND ANDREW W. LEHREN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 5:23 a.m.

Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports made public Sunday.

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