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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. 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.

A Russian military intelligence unit linked to assassination attempts in Europe had offered rewards for successful attacks last year, according to the newspaper. It said Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money.

“This primitive informational dump clearly demonstrates low intellectual abilities of the propagandists at the American intelligence service,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement cited by the RIA news agency.


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

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

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 U.S. is looking for a way to extricate itself from Afghanistan and to achieve peace between the U.S.-backed government and the militant group, which controls swathes of the country.

On Feb. 29, the U.S. and the Taliban struck a deal that called for a phased withdrawal of American troops.

U.S. 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 coronavirus, U.S. and NATO officials said in late May.

Russians are just returning the favor.

Yep, we backed the Mujahideen against the Russians. I’m sure they didn’t care for the money and weapons we furnished the Afghans. We might have been better off to have minded our own business.

Well.....Lets go to war then.

I wouldn't be quoting anything from the New Yawk Slimes if I want to have any credibility. OTOH, if they really wanted to do us a favor, they'd put bounties out on the heads of every editor and editorial board member of every leftist rag in the country. They can call it an "Honesty in Journalism" initiative.





You apparently can't tell the difference between Russia and the Soviet Union.

Don't ya figure we've been trading covert killings for a long time now?

Absolutely! Russia got a black eye when our guys decimated their mercenaries in Syria iirc.....something like 5 to 1 and we still destroyed them. They’re looking for payback.

But................I thought the general consensus on the Campfire was that Russia and Putin were our friends.

Their lying!

This was leaked information. Why are no reporters or their sources ever arrested for leaking classified info? According to the former DNI Trump had not even been briefed on this info.

Why would any thinking individual read Investia on the Hudson, much less believe anything this propaganda rag publishes?

Wall Street Journal reporting the same story.

The most important part..........................."the New York Times reported"

Sounds like a made gotcha thing.

After a 20th Century interregnum The Great Game in Central Asia has picked up again with Russia playing the same part it did in the 19th Century and the US stepping into the shoes of Britain. The region has slid back into state of lawlessness similar to what it was then and lots of the issues seem to be faint reflections of happenings back then.

But in 1835 Lord Palmerston said the following about Afghanistan and Russia and it seems to be as accurate today as it was then:

Here we are, just as we were, snarling at each other, hating each other, but neither wishing for war. - Lord Palmerston (1835)[21]

Yah.

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Sad state of affairs when Russia Today is more reliable than the New York Times.

Some of you dude have led sheltered lives if you think that this is anything new...........

"the New York Times reported on Friday"

And you believe it? Reuters lies as much as the NYT.