Featured Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says

[jamahir]

foolish, foolish Muslims for accepting Russian help to attack NATO forces. you only hurt yourselves and those you love.

Taliban are not the type of "Muslims" we need.

But can you tell me the Taliban's vision for Afghanistan for the next five years ?

 

[PeaceGen]

Taliban are not the type of "Muslims" we need.

But can you tell me the Taliban's vision for Afghanistan for the next five years ?

i don't like the Talibans values one bit. i don't want to see them in power over anything but their own tribes' members.

 

[jamahir]

i don't like the Talibans values one bit.

i don't want to see them in power over anything but their own tribes' members.

I didn't understand.

 

[Azadkashmir]

 

[PeaceGen]

I didn't understand.

as far as i know, many among the taliban want to rule over people who are not members of their tribes.
this is wrong, and should be prevented.

 

[jamahir]

as far as i know, many among the taliban want to rule over people who are not members of their tribes.
this is wrong, and should be prevented.

Even when the common people are from the same tribe as the Taliban members' tribes the Taliban rule has to be prevented. The Taliban has no idea how to govern a society. All they seem to know is shut down barber shops, impose burqa, stop education of women and create a societal situation where things like the lynching of Farkhunda happen.

 

[BATMAN]

You may call them Taliban or mercenaries... US has been more guilty in such dirty games.

 

[Globenim]

lol

How dare a country pay some foreigners to cause trouble to others even worse trouble to foreign invaders in their own country. Only the U.S. terror regime can do that!

 

[PradoTLC]

You won't find Indians when you always really need them.

I am disappointed... I thought they were global anti terrorist champions...

 

[Rizwan Alam]

What do u expect? Russia to pay militants to not harm US troops?

 

[ARMalik]

NY Times aka Nonsense Times have a habit of posting fairytales. This is just another one of these bull shi.t stories. Taliban have been killing US/Nato soldiers for 2-decades. Anyways looks like these days US and India have one big thing in common - BULLSHI.TTING.

 

[PradoTLC]

But can you tell me the Taliban's vision for Afghanistan for the next five years ?

No indians


Russia offered Afghan militants bounties to kill US troops: NY Times
ReutersUpdated June 27, 2020
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US troops wait for their helicopter flight at an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in Logar province, Afghanistan. — Reuters/File
US intelligence has concluded that the Russian military offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan to kill American troops and other coalition forces, the *New York Times* reported on Friday.

Citing officials briefed on the matter, the Times said the United States determined months ago that a Russian military intelligence unit linked to assassination attempts in Europe had offered rewards for successful attacks last year.

Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money, the newspaper said.

The White House, the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined requests from Reuters for comment on the Times report.

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President Donald Trump has been briefed on the intelligence finding, the Times said. It said the White House has yet to authorise any steps against Russia in response to the bounties.

Of the 20 Americans killed in combat in 2019, the Times said, it was not clear which deaths were under suspicion.

After nearly 20 years of fighting the Taliban, the United States is looking for a way to extricate itself from Afghanistan and to achieve peace between the US-backed government and the militant group, which controls swathes of the country.

On Feb 29, the United States and the Taliban struck a deal that called for a phased US troop withdrawal.

US troop strength in Afghanistan is down to nearly 8,600, well ahead of a schedule agreed with the Taliban, in part because of concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, US and NATO officials said in late May.

Russia denounces 'baseless, anonymous accusations'
Russia on Saturday denounced the newspaper report as “baseless” and dangerous.

The “baseless and anonymous accusations,” published by the newspaper, had “already led to direct threats to the life of employees of the Russian Embassies in Washington DC and London,” the Russian Embassy in Washington wrote on Twitter.

“Stop producing #fakenews that provoke life threats, @nytimes,” it added in a later tweet.



Russia has a tortured history in Afghanistan, where the former Soviet Union in its final years was bogged down in a devastating fight against Islamist guerrillas, then backed by Washington.

But Russia has more recently been accused by the United States of quietly providing small arms to the Taliban.

According to the newspaper, the Taliban operation was led by a unit known as the GRU, which has been blamed in numerous international incidents including a 2018 chemical weapons attack in Britain that nearly killed Russian-born double agent Sergei Skripal.

All hail Surrender Modi, Amit & Doval - The Three idiots...

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

What's the "surprise" in it??????

 

[PradoTLC]

What's the "surprise" in it??????

what goes around comes around.

US & india armed and trained TTP to destablise Pakistan.... and yes they put bounty on the number of Pakistani soldiers killed.

any one who doesnt like the US are just returning the favour...

 

[H. Dawary]

Even when the common people are from the same tribe as the Taliban members' tribes the Taliban rule has to be prevented. The Taliban has no idea how to govern a society. All they seem to know is shut down barber shops, impose burqa, stop education of women and create a societal situation where things like the lynching of Farkhunda happen.

The great part is that you won't decide, we Afghans will. Noor Taraki, Babrak Karmal, Najibullah, and Ashraf Ghani will end up in our history like Shah Shuja Durrani did. We are tired of puppets, we are tired of foreign armies within our soil, and we are tired of those who can't stay in power without the support of outside armies.