French troops were killed after Italy hushed up ‘bribes’ to Taleban
From this article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6875376.ece
Don't know what to make of it myself, but my eyebrows was raised from reading some of the comments from the Italians.
Also interesting to read the anti-Italian comments made on a Norwegian news article regarding this issue, which is here, mostly on Italians in WW2 and Berlusconi:
http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/10/15/n.../nato/8587846/
I still wonder why the French went underarmed on patrol in a potential warzone, even if it had been quiet for months. Shouldn't precautions be taken?
Still, the Italian intelligence should have mentioned the bribes, as the French had a completely different threat assessment level because they did not know local insurgents were bribed to not attack.
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