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 | | But in Greece in 1941, as a lieutenant in the Italian Army's Pinerolo Division during the Italian occupation, he was one of the soldiers responsible for the torture and murder of a Greek policeman named Isaac Sinanoglu, who was dragged by a galloping horse after his teeth were extracted with pliers. |
 | | The number of Italians killed by gunfire (firing squad) in Nazi reprisals is usually placed at around 8,000, mostly civilians, and the men responsible have sometimes been tried for murder, though the German Federal Republic is not legally required to extradite such suspects, now old men in their 80s or 90s. |
 | | They were the Italian Taliban, and in many ways their social policies, and eventual defeat, were remarkably similar to those of the Taliban in Afghanistan six decades later (and for which President Bush mentioned Fascism in his speech condemning the terrorist attacks in the United States in September 2001). |
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