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2020-06-27 Afghanistan

US spy agencies believe Russian operatives secretly offered Afghan militants bounties to kill American troops

[Washington Examiner] Officials within the U.S. intelligence community believe Russian intelligence operatives offered to pay Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces, including U.S. troops, during peace talks to end the nearly two-decade-old conflict in Afghanistan.

Officials told the New York Times that Unit 29155, part of the Russian military intelligence agency widely known as GRU, has been deemed responsible for the bounties. The unit is linked to the March 2018 nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury, England, of Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Skripal was a GRU officer who had worked for British intelligence forces and then defected. In 2016, the unit was linked to an attempted coup in Montenegro.

The officials, who spoke with the outlet on the condition of anonymity, said the intelligence on bounties offered by the GRU is fairly conclusive, based partly on interrogations of captured Afghan militants and criminals, but it is unknown how high in the Russian government knowledge of the situation or approval of it went.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-27 05:19|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 He's not exceptionally bright, but Ivan has a very long memory.

Bus Insider, 16 Feb 2018 - Russian military contractors reportedly tried to test the US military in Syria — but they got whooped

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-27 05:27|| 2020-06-27 05:27|| Front Page Top

#2 ^If you going there, go all the way to the Russian Afghan war.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-27 06:03|| 2020-06-27 06:03|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Yes indeed, excellent comment. There were those (now conveniently forgotten) Mujajadeem alliances and regime change measures.

"You may not believe in Karma, but Karma believes in you."

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-27 06:10|| 2020-06-27 06:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Mind you, the people who done it are just as much traitors to their country as Strzok & Brennan.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-27 06:29|| 2020-06-27 06:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Anyone surprised by this is either naive or willfully ignorant.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-06-27 10:27|| 2020-06-27 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Same partisan hack int analysts who said in the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that Iran wasn't pursuing Nuclear Weapons?

Look who they leaked this to. NYT. #FakeNews sometimes? Or a fake news and domestic propaganda platform and outlet all the time?

Unit 29155 is a Bellingcat meme. Bellingcat is also the outlet for the White Helmets and the Assad Chemical Weapon Attack narratives.

We were always at war with Oceania. That's what this article reminds me of.

Posted by mossomo 2020-06-27 18:42|| 2020-06-27 18:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Is it October already?

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-06-27 19:00|| 2020-06-27 19:00|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Yes indeed, excellent comment. There were those (now conveniently forgotten) Mujajadeem alliances and regime change measures.

"You may not believe in Karma, but Karma believes in you."

Given Russian support for North Korea and North Vietnam, and the deaths of 100,000 GI's in the associated conflicts, I think the Russians are ahead of the game.

Ivan only remembers the assertive actions taken by others against himself. GI Joe only remembers the assertive actions he has taken against others. There's a kind of symmetry there.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2020-06-27 21:06|| 2020-06-27 21:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Wait... Afghan militants need to be paid to kill American troops ?

Are you sure this isn't more McCarthyism to make your men stay obsessed with this dung heap ? While the real enemy is frollicking within ?

Posted by Dron66046 2020-06-27 23:08|| 2020-06-27 23:08|| Front Page Top

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