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Afghanistan
Official: US Paying Taliban to Reduce Afghan Attacks
2011-03-01
While this is not a link I frequent, it can hardly be classified as "single source reporting." You may draw your own conclusions with regard to veracity and timing, which happens to coincide with recent administration "secret negociations with the Taliban."

Michael Corleone: Don't ask me about my business, Kay.
Michael Corleone: Is it true?
Michael Corleone: Don't ask me about my business...
Kay Adams: No...
Michael Corleone: [slams the desk] ENOUGH!
This story pops up periodically, but it's been going on since we started supplying troops through Pakistan. Unfortunately, so long as the government those running Pakistan have pet jihadis and, even if they didn't, so long as the powers-that-be cannot establish control over Pakistan's outlying territories even if they wanted to, this mafia-style blackmail will continue.
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