Un-friggin-believable: Ten French soldiers killed after Italians bribed Taliban not to fight

October 17, 2009, 3:13 pm · 3 comments

Italy’s bribery strategy proved more creative than the typical French strategy of retreat and surrender, but considerably more deadly.

The Australian reports via Andrew Bolt:

TEN French soldiers killed in Afghanistan failed to realise the risks in the area because Italian officials had secretly paid the Taliban to desist from violence.
The Italian secret service had been paying tens of thousands of dollars to Taliban commanders and local warlords to keep the Sarobi area near Kabul quiet in the months before French forces moved in.
The French had been in charge of the area for just a month when the 10 soldiers were killed in an insurgent ambush in August 2008, in one of the biggest single losses of life for NATO forces in Afghanistan.

“Sacre bleu, Henri, pour me another glass of that insouciant ’93 chardonnay. This Afghanistan duty is a lot easier than I…(BANG)…”

Source: Andrew Bolt

Tagged as: Afghanistan, French, Italians, Taliban

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Daniel October 17, 2009, 8:57 pm at 8:57 pm: im so damn confused
what the hell is going on? ten soldiers die because the people that were paid to not kill them killed them anyway?
seems like a good way to make cash working for that big turban in the sky
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gneek October 18, 2009, 8:52 am at 8:52 am: Actually, Italian government denies all this and is threatening to sue Times (who published this first). I would reserve my judgment if I were you until all the facts come out.
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