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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 04:48 PM
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Taliban Guards 'Bribed' To Help David Rohde's Daring Escape Plan
Source: ABC News

The New York Times used a private security company with ties to the CIA to bribe Taliban guards as part of its seven month effort to gain the freedom of reporter David Rohde and two others taken hostage with him in Afghanistan, according to people involved in the case.

The bribes were reportedly paid in small amounts of only a few hundred dollars at a variety of locations where Rhode was held. It was not clear what role, if any, they may have played in Rohde's daring escape early Saturday.

The company, the Boston-based American International Security Corporation, AISC, also proposed a possible armed assault to free Rohde but called off those plans when Rohde was moved from Afghanistan into Pakistan where such an assault was deemed more difficult to pull off, the people said.

Rohde and Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin escaped early Saturday morning from a Taliban compound in Miranshah, Pakistan, a city of 150,000 people considered a stronghold of the Taliban.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7907432&page=1
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 05:08 PM
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1. An Unlikely Story
Did they get a receipt?
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robcon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 06:00 PM
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2. good plan, since it worked.
n/t
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-24-09 05:56 AM
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3. Why does the CIA have ties to a private security company? Life is so much more pleasant
Edited on Wed Jun-24-09 06:01 AM by No Elephants
when you convert people from Islam to the religion of the West--money.

(insert sarcasm emote here)

Heard a guy from the NYT talking on one of the Sunday talking head shows. He said the NYT agonized over not reporting the story as it developed.

I wonder if they agonized as much when the NYT held up stories for an entire year in order to impove Bushco's chances of getting re-elected.
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-24-09 08:58 AM
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4. You like CIA tinfoil conspiracies ? Here is a motherlode of 'propaganda'
being put out by a source located in <censored> to counter the evil plans of the current admin;

CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars

Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution




http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/cia-has-distributed-400-million-dollars-inside-iran-to-evoke-a-revolution/

They got all the spins from NWO to unbuilt oil pipeline delays
:sarcasm:



CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution

Former Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beig claims the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed 400 million dollars inside Iran to evoke a revolution.In a phone interview with the Pashto Radio on Monday, General Beig said that there is undisputed intelligence proving the US interference in Iran.“The documents prove that the CIA spent 400 million dollars inside Iran to prop up a colorful-hollow revolution following the election,” he added.

Pakistan’s former army chief of joint staff went on to say that the US wanted to disturb the situation in Iran and bring to power a pro-US government.He congratulated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his re- election for the second term in office, noting that Pakistan relationship with Iran has improved during his 4-year presidency. “Ahmadinejad’s re-election is a decisive point in regional policy and if Pakistan and Afghanistan unite with Iran, the US has to leave the area, especially the occupied Afghanistan,” Beig added.



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