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US contractors sued for bribing Taliban in Afghanistan

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KABUL that killed or wounded US soldiers and civilians, alleges a new lawsuit.

Filed on Friday, the suit claims the contractors made protection payments to the Taliban because they had lucrative businesses in post-9/11 Afghanistan.

Payments were made to convince the insurgents into refraining from attacks on their business interests, according to the suit filed by families of more than 100 people who were killed and wounded in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2017.

“Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly . . .

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