Washington Post: Russian bounties to Taliban fighters believed to result in deaths of US troops, intelligence assessments show

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Russian bounties offered to Taliban militants in Afghanistan to kill US or UK troops there are believed to have resulted in the deaths of multiple US troops, the Washington Post reports, citing US intelligence gathered from military interrogations

Russian bounties offered to Taliban militants in Afghanistan to kill US or UK troops there are believed to have resulted in the deaths of multiple US troops, the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing US intelligence gathered from military interrogations.

Multiple people familiar with the matter told the Post it is not clear how many US troops may have been killed as a result of the bounties. CNN previously reported that Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence agency GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they killed US or UK troops there, according to a European intelligence official.

 

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FAKE NEWS once again as Zuckers campaign to malign our president suffers another defeat by the TRUTH! Unsubstantiated intel is never given to a president. It must be confirmed first which this wasn’t. Putin wants chaos and CNN will help him achieve just that . CNN,Russian stooge.

Fake news

Why are nazi america troops still in the country....?

And that this story is being walked back by NYT will CNN say something?

I don't believe the anything the ny slime says.. I believe in know when I buy that reads in New York slime many more people out here are sick of it

Oh were back at this now, didn't you try the same tactics for the 2016 elections... Jog on fake news

Your mainstream news media articles are seditious and undermining our American government! Your CEO should be arrested, tried and if convicted imprisoned!

Who'd believe US intelligence?

Je ne comprend pas pourquoi ils sont la ? Ils ont semé que désastre et désolation partout ou ils passent au nom de la liberté que chez eux ils ne la respectent pas, ils veulent entraîner les musulmans dans leurs combine contre la chine comme ils l'ont fait en afganistan.

I wish trump would just force this cnn to close! But that would be a Marxist move...lol

Unverified, fake news

It's time fake American media be sued for their hoax lies and provocations undermining world peace and causing chaos. Freedom of lies now rules America.

What did American’s elites do for our involvement in the Russian Afghan war between the years 1979-1989.

Wrong, media continue the lie

We lost 2 people this year so far and they happened in Feb . And that was by “friendly fire”. No action against US Troops directly since agreement . This was a unverified report from March . Wasn’t reported higher up . But this is leaked now ? Yeah got it .

And without condoning this deplorable practice as it makes me sick, What has the CIA been doing as their track record is not so squeaky clean either

Russian bitterness over the U.S. bombing their troops (disguised as mercenaries) in Syria It's a miracle the U.S. & Russia haven't started a full-scale over the years

I know your ignorant and naive few viewers haven’t a clue about War, but “Bounties” during conflicts is as ageless as War itself. Gold pieces to Roman Centurions. Hitler rewarded his military leaders based on Dead enemy numbers. So don’t get your panties twisted about this crap!

“Charged” with treason denotes a criminal indictment & implies a criminal trial to which any sitting President is immune unless he or she is first impeached by the House. POTUS is Impeached.

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In my opinion this is a believable report. It's sad America has a President that won't protect its peoples from the Coronavirus epidemic or the enemies overseas. His friend Putin can do anything he wants to undermine America and Trump is allowing this to happen, enough is enough

POTUS is weak & a failure. Say what you will but if he were a man of color & did 1/1000 of what this person has done to our nation, he & his family would be in prison. So, WHY HAS HE BEEN ALLOWED TO COME BACK?... Because there are many more like him leading us. VOTE PEOPLE VOTE!

I don't trust CNN.

'according to a European intelligence official. ' I call rubbish on the claim

Why does CNN keep pushing this agenda? When people don't fact check things. The people who own the media companies can push what ever agenda THEY WANT you to believe. Most will believe because it's too much work to seek the truth.

Trump's ignorance and silence on this is a tell. It is proving what a fool Putin thinks trump is and lends credence to the thought that Putin has SOMETHING on trump to render him toothless. Putin has played trump. Trump has played his supporters. STUPIDITY IS A CHOICE!!!

Hey CNN! Why are you still in BUSINESS?

Americans died between 2016 and 2020 in Afghanistan and yet there's been no action from this administration. Instead, he'll probably just fire whoever let this leak.

Lack of leadership has gone too far!

No worries. Putin is a terrific guy, right realDonaldTrump ?

The FakeNews attempts to attack Potus will end up getting is into a war.

Nothing news , media as all ways blowing old news , worry about the Russians coming 50 miles close to the Alaskan border air space

'US Official' sure! more lies from CNN and their 5 viewers

...and in other news, our very own VanJones68 has moved into WhiteHouse to play with TraitorTrump.

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Fake news

Let me guess all those killed were Democrats n spoke against trump. Another way to will election for trump

Fake news. Nothing new

Told you he was a traitor...

I guess it's time for ours and the UK military to take them out

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Who in their right mind believes this?

How much for one?

Treason!

Get these a holes that have been screwing everyones life up because they stole the gov from david j everett get them out of my gov now are u fing kidding me when we say for the people by the people they dident include the words evil or incompatent ever since they had control

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It's time to get rid of Putin's Pupett in the White House IMPEACH TRAITOR TRUMP LOCK HIM UP

How about you talk about all the people including small kids that was killed in Chicago over the weekend...

Trump continues to support dictators like Putin, like he did in Helsinki. I guess it’s okay to try and get along with other countries , but it’s not okay at the expense of American elections and American soldiers. VoteTrumpOut2020

the idea there should be no shame or guilt in asking why do we take in millions of people if the primary reason is not racism but because have to many people already here and a capitalist government hell bent on destroying the third word for profit motives driving them here.

here is a idea why don't we and I use that term very loosely get the fuck out of brown peoples land who have not fucked with us so rich people can rob them and than they ended up coming here than asking a lot of people what do we do with the shit ton of people coming.

so we should what heighten tensions with the russians and have another cold war and why because some of the same people who said the russians interfered in the last election and have found nothing after the spending of a trillion dollars said so.

The Taliban will do it for free, so it is BS. Want to cover something important start with this Trum is giving Israel free pass to do as it wishes to the Palestinians. July ! Israel will set up it's own Chop in the West Bank. and

Obama bounty on Seal Team 6

Welp the US has a lot of work to do

Wow new a new haux.. Thay want Trump to fail in international affair and therefore new story in case he win 2020. But he will win again and fake news media will fail. This is so troubling to see that most librals and media outlets are trying to destroy its own country.

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Hoax

BIDEN OR PUTIN

The Taliban have been at war with the US in A'stan for the last 19 years. Common sense really....why would anyone pay people to do something they willingly have done for free for the last couple of decades ? In simple terms, this story is bullshit.

Why would Trump not advise Congress of Russian plot to target Allied and US forces? They can take quick actions of their own to investigate and pressure Russia. Instead Trump invited Putin to G7. This needs in investigating at every level. How many killed? SenateForeign GRU

Omg!

Ok so this is potentially the start of the end of the world.........

This sounds almost like supporting terrorism to me...

The same intelligence that say Iraq has weapon of mass destruction or another one?

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And what, exactly, would prevent it? More sanctions? We're in a proxy war, and have been for 9 years. The only step left is war between two nuclear powers.

This is terrible news for our military families, this president must be impeached NOW, and the VP must resign. These 2 people have destroyed this country. And try them both for treason

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Russia pay to kill and USA and UK kills Afgans by thousand for free. Any news how many thousands Afgans killed so far by USA and coalition of willing for free. Or canot be reported classified as NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE public not alowed to know.

Really wrf

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*alleged Russian...

And comrade trump plays golf

This is not a surprise if true. This is what war looks like. But I’m skeptical of anonymous sources

The USA government doesn’t know about it , Uk government doesn’t know about it but yes CNN always have stories Actually the last 4 or 5 years the death for usa in Afghanistan is below the average and uk have no death at all on the last 4 year

'Millitary interrogations' so torture -_-

And Trump didn’t do a fucking thing to stop this.

Fake news conspiracy theory

Where are the Chaz/Chop updates at? Your feed is a joke

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And trump will not care in the least

BULLSHIT just like the Mueller investigation

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rosemaryCNN Obviously a backstabbing move from an ally, but the Russians remember the 1980s when 🇺🇸 was paying big 💰to mojahedeen (who later became Al Qaeda & Taliban) to kill tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers who were protecting women’s right to go to school and live in peace

This sounds crazy.What are we gonna hear next,that Russia paid bin Laden and the German cell ?

Gossip news

If taliban is thinking about destroying any confederate statues. trump and the republicans will start WW3. They’re so clueless for providing leadership. Try stop making the criminally corrupted swamp so deep.

Just stop CNN. The misinformation you spread is harming our country

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The Russian action represents a deliberate attempt to both generate the death of American troops, and to interfere in negotiations. This wouldn’t just be a first for Afghanistan—it would be the first time Russia is known to have solicited hits on Western troops.

None of it’s true

I am not a journalist but.... One question... Why would the Russians do that with people who are literally at war. 'what's the point? But Americans are so delusional and easily manipulated that they will say that its because Russia doesn't like America.... Grow up...

Russia always spoiling for war...

What is Trump going to say to the parents, wives and children of these troops?

Uh.....Trumps response ....”I’m not responsible “. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤯😒

UK too, hey?

So European intel got info on “secret” Russian spy activity that isn’t deemed credible by our intel service so POTUS isn’t briefed, yet media somehow knows of it? Reeks of similarity to false dossier crafted by former British intel in cahoots with Russians from last election? 🤔

Talliban doesn't need anyone to offer bounties, they go after any US citizen ALL THE TIME! So offering to pay them to do something they do freely is a dumb angle even for dem/media propaganda to spin, lol

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Remember when conservatives use to back the military and stand up to Russian Dictators.

What a joke. That's like saying the Cowboys paid the Chiefs to beat the 49ers because they didn't want them to win. Pretty sure the Taliban wanted to kill US troops anyway.

No surprise, Russia wants to kill us all the time. China wants to kill is with a virus. And looks like we are suicidal, with shutting down, rioting, defunding. Wake up, we are under attack by the communists.

Russia - Rona - Riot- REPEAT - Russia- Rona - Riot- REPEAT.....

The entire Trump administration and his family should be dumped in Russia.

Intelligence they got from where? Sources? Proof?

When is this from? Who was the Russian diplomat that worked with this? We are still waiting for more info on Benghazi.

This is not the first time the White House denies receiving intelligence reports (remember CV19 back in Feb 2020) which means Congress should require that on high alert matters they be cc'd. Trumps track record speaks for itself -not reading/listening to high ranking advisors.

Think about this: Our “law and order” president is willing to attack Americans protesting peacefully but is unwilling to even say a negative word against Putin and the russians who are killing American soldiers! baffling TRE450N VoteBlueToSaveAmerica Biden2020

It's a proxy war, what do you expect?

Careful. This has all the hallmarks of the last Russia hoax.

Disinformation here..

Is it true? Or just another Chaos ?

Biden was in the ROOM

Yes, but don't worry... The president said there 'weren't that many'. So that makes it ok. 🤢🤮

citing US intelligence gathered from military interrogations.

And still trump lies he knew nothing!!! He said he knows thinks, he knows foreign policy so well !! Sadly this is true he knew but said and did nothing! TrumpTreason TrumpTreason TrumpTreason He should be arrested

revenge for CIA operation in the 1980's,,, not hard to figure out

Since drumpf putinsbitch does not know anything about it then the intelligence must be fake. You know we have to believe a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR, right. dems vote latinos women vote2020

Make damaging allegations. Force denial. Damage done. Move on. Repeat.

This is ridiculous to report. Not true

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Just want everyone to know you can never trust CNN FAKE NEWS !!!!

This is sickening

Could you imagine if this happened when Obama was in office?

WHAT‼️If TRUE (Sources need interrogating)& there’s EVIDENCE to prove it, then this is a prelude to WAR‼️We had Alexander Litvinenko MURDERED by KGB/FSB/SVR via the highly toxic lethal radioactive Polonium210,Putting MANY at risk.We didn’t retaliate.WHAT will reactive TRUMP do?

Washington Post is also selling land on Mars.

Woah!

I don’t know about that!

If the US is fighting the Taliban and Russia gives them money to kill soldiers. How is that different from the US giving Ukraine money to kill Russian soldiers. Please explain....

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realDonaldTrump is the f*ing president. HE DEFINITELY KNEW AND DID NOTHING!! ..., but went golfing.. and ignored covid..TrumpFailedAmerica TrumpTreason

How come they didn’t tell their overlord? Lol

Basically, what we did when we fought a proxy war in Afghanistan to turn the Russian people against their leadership and then abandoned them, with the ruins. Outcome....the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Russia is playing it back on us, except Trump is handing it to them.

'Washington Post' reports 😀🤡

*Trump kills Qasem Soleimani* “Trump is crazy we are so sorry Iran!” *Russia allegedly pays Taliban bounties* “He hates the troops omg why would he ever talk to Putin after that” Russia Iran Russianbounty

I'm reading pence and trump werent briefed? Is that accurate?

Yes, we got that cnn, question is, did anyone collect a bounty?

A little reading material for you. War is nasty.

Why does every media outlet run with and change the information in this unverified claim? To Date, according to original information, there have been no confirmations of any Murder for hire deaths. Also there has been no evidence of a official report to back any of this.

As a Soldier, hard (unbelievable) to think that POTUS and SECDEF were not briefed on this at a minimum. Was this oversight or an unwillingness to hear anything negative about Russian activities. This is beyond treasonous and definitely is not keeping with any loyalty to the USA.

Soooo multiple people who would know say this story is false yet the media just keep rolling with it and adding to it from anonymous sources.

Yeah ok. Because the washingtonPost is a beacon of truth!!! The washingtonpost is the crap print equivalent of CNN & MSNBC. MSDNC.

It was not clear which US deaths in Afghanistan were linked to bounties offered by Russia to Taliban fighters.

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Antifa and blm has bounties on police, so what's new?

Lol, so your source is a terrorist?

TRE45ON

When has trump not put Russia first?

If Putin sets foot in the US he should be immediately arrested for committing war crimes.

So happy the CIA don’t get involved in stuff like this🙄

TREA45ON

Prime examples of Trump supporters hearing only what they want to hear and believing what they want to believe

And trump will call this fake news

The Trump shit show never ends.

Already debunked. CNN is shameless.

Why would they give a bounty for something the do literally for free....

The Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. has denounced The New York Times report as ' baseless allegations ' that has resulted in death threats issued to Russian diplomats in London and Washington D.C.

Why do Trump supporters hate America so much? They will even turn their backs on our soldiers to protect their dear leader.

Either Trump did not know and his dismissiveness of intelligence reports shows how incompetence or he knew and allowed it to happen. There is no winning move. Trump betrayed us for Russia.

I'm sure this is also the first trump has heard about it. The whole fucking world knows except him.

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Your own story contradicts your tweet

Could anyone ever imagine a US president hiding something like this! If he gets away with this, I honestly don’t no how much more fight I have left in me! These past 5 months, watching the country I love, fall apart have been truly frightening

tomcox60 So what excuses are the GOP Senators going with this week? ..I'm late for lunch ..I didn't hear about that ..ignore all inquiries like you can't hear them ..he said he wasn't briefed

Are you sure? How many deaths?

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You guys are idiots

WH response, we know nothing, see nothing or hear nothing

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