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Russia Offered Bounties For Taliban Militants To Kill U.S. Soldiers - Trump does NOTHING (Original Post) Joinfortmill Jun 2020 OP
What will finally be enough for the con to lose military support? LiberalBrooke Jun 2020 #1
You read it, right? Igel Jun 2020 #6
We have bdamomma Jun 2020 #2
K&R UTUSN Jun 2020 #3
I disagree he tried to get Russia back in the G7 also he is pulling doc03 Jun 2020 #4
when will trump say anything? samsingh Jun 2020 #5

Igel

(35,173 posts)
6. You read it, right?
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 12:05 PM
Jun 2020

Anonymous sources say that intelligence services, based on interrogations of Taliban captives, concluded there's a likelihood that a GRU unit, based on somebody's authority, made an offer to some Taliban to attack and kill some Americans and British soldiers ... But the evidence, source of authority, who made the offer, to whom the offer was made, the actual incidents that resulted, and whether any money was paid ...

It's rather less than "somebody did something somewhere." At least with the bare verb "did" something actually happened. It's more like "we think somebody maybe did something somewhere." Truly, a rousing call to arms.

High likelihood? Low likelihood?

Who were the captives? How many?

Who interrogated them? How long? What circumstances? Please don't tell me that some remote Afghan army unit tortured this information, and we have to rely on that quality of humint.

Did they have first-hand information or hearsay?

Any corroboration?

What NATO units were attacked? When? Where?

What units were offered money to do the attacking? Where? When?

Was money turned over for the attacks? Where? When?

Granted, there will be gaps. But this is the Grand Canyon of gaps.

doc03

(35,078 posts)
4. I disagree he tried to get Russia back in the G7 also he is pulling
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 10:22 AM
Jun 2020

troops out of Germany. He has rewarded Putin.

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