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2020-06-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia secretly offered bounties to the Taliban for killing US Coalition forces in Afghanistan
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Posted by 3dc 2020-06-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,  

#1 report said the payoffs started in March

no USA fatalities since feb

intel came from captured Taliban who may have been lied to by their handler or why have been wishful thinking
Posted by lord garth 2020-06-28 00:12||   2020-06-28 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't GRU's Unit 29155 the one accused of The Salisbury Poisonings (which became a BBC Drama)?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-28 03:24||   2020-06-28 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Yes, I believe I saw at least one piece of UNCLAS traffic that indicated Salisbury-Skripel was a 29155 job. It's certainly in their available product line. At the time I suspected a Porton Down (PD) disgruntled employee or do-it-yourself home chem-bio project. The proximity of the incident to PD was in fact a coincidence.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-28 07:37||   2020-06-28 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Kind of like the Wuhan lab and the near-by wet market.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-28 07:50||   2020-06-28 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Exactly correct. A convenient cover-for-action.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-28 08:03||   2020-06-28 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't find this to be credible at all. First you have the Russians, notorious big spenders that they are. Then the ever reliable Taliban who won't even keep any recognizable agreement with their co-religionists much less people they are religiously sanctioned to lie, cheat, and steal from.

So the entire set up strains the imagination. But if the practical limitations aren't enough it's being reported by the NYT.
Posted by Cesare 2020-06-28 08:53||   2020-06-28 08:53|| Front Page Top

#7 This is the Democrats new Russia Collusion gig to attack Trump.
Posted by b 2020-06-28 09:37||   2020-06-28 09:37|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Neh, it's MI5
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-28 09:52||   2020-06-28 09:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Taliban...sounds they are as megalomaniacal as the Democratic party.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-28 10:08||   2020-06-28 10:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Speaking of the New York Slimes...
Posted by Clem 2020-06-28 10:16||   2020-06-28 10:16|| Front Page Top

#11 ZH reports all players claiming NYT report as fake news:
Posted by Clem 2020-06-28 14:25||   2020-06-28 14:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Clem’s link:
Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-28 14:33||   2020-06-28 14:33|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't trust anyone involved in this story, including the party reporting it.

Posted by charger 2020-06-28 15:26||   2020-06-28 15:26|| Front Page Top

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