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| Russia Denies Supplying Taliban after NATO Claim |
| 2017-03-25 |
| [AnNahar] Russia on Friday denied allegations by the commander of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... that Moscow may be assisting the Taliban as the snuffies fight US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. "These claims are absolutely false," Zamir Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... ov, head of the Russian foreign ministry's department responsible for Afghanistan and the Kremlin's special envoy in the country, told RIA Novosti state news agency. "These fabrications are designed, as we have repeatedly underlined, to justify the failure of the US military and politicians in the Afghan campaign. There is no other explanation." NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, US General Curtis Scaparrotti, who also heads the US military's European Command, told politicians in Washington on Thursday that he had witnessed Russia's influence grow in many regions, including in Afghanistan. In a statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Scaparrotti said Moscow was "perhaps" supplying the Taliban. In February General John Nicholson, the US commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, testified that Russia is encouraging the Taliban and providing them with diplomatic cover in a bid to undermine US influence and defeat NATO. Kabulov in 2015 said that Russia was exchanging information with the Taliban and saw shared interest with them when it comes to fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group. Russia considers the Taliban a terrorist group and it is banned in the country, along with the Islamic State group. Taliban fighters on Thursday captured Afghanistan's strategic district of Sangin, where US and British forces suffered heavy casualties until it was handed over to Afghan personnel. |
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