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WikiLeaks: U.S. knew of contractor bribes to Taliban





Here's another piece of information from the WikiLeaks war logs that, while not strictly "new," underscores an under-discussed and intensely problematic fact of the Afghan War: U.S. taxpayer dollars are funding the Taliban via protection payments from military trucking contractors to insurgents.







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