There is one wee problem with your statement. The American's funded the
Mujahideen of Afghanistan, as the only Al-Qaeda that existed at that time was
the one originally founded in America in 1923. The Bin Laden "Al-Qaeda" was
created by Clinton starting in 1990s and it was run out of Pakistan (and still
is). Afghanistan never gave safe haven to Bin Laden, Pakistan asked
Afghanistan to "hold him" and they will supply Afghanistan with nuclear weapons
to defend against America when they come. Then Pakistani did 911, and when
Afghanistan said to Pakistan "so where are these nukes you promised us" the
response from Pakistan was "what nukes?" And that was the last time
Afghanistan will ever hold a hot potato for Pakistan ever again. In 10 years
there will be no more Pakistan. There will only be Pashtostan (a Pakistan that
was conquered by Afghanistan).
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Subject: [cryptome] Inside the CIA and NSA disagreement over Russian bounties
story
see url:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/inside-the-cia-and-nsa-disagreement-over-russian-bounties-story
see url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
see full story...There is one wee problem with this story about Russians paying
bounties to kill Americans...and that is...when the Soviet Union invaded
Afghanistan, the USG along with other Western Democracies funded the terrorists
including Al Qaeda, calling them liberation forces...So...what's the
problem...is it so terrible, so unconscionable a tactic to US minds...Or is the
USG once again trying to take the moral high ground by saying that it doesn't
do such terrible things in the world...Not that the story is true anyway...the
usual deception and misinformation at work...
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Did Russia's GRU military intelligence service pay the Taliban bounties to kill
American military personnel in Afghanistan? It's unclear. The intelligence
community has given neither former President Donald Trump or President Joe
Biden a high confidence assessment that such incidents occurred. But that's not
the end of the story.
For the CIA in particular, this is very much an open matter.
Primarily responsible for the collection of human intelligence, the CIA has
moderate confidence that a compartmentalized unit of the GRU did indeed pay
bounties for the explicit purpose of killing Americans. I'm led to believe that
the CIA's basis for this assessment has five key foundations.
First, information gathered from detainee interviews and related U.S.
military operations in Afghanistan.
Second, detected financial flows between the GRU, its intermediaries, and
Taliban officers.
Third, highly sensitive and reliable reporting from agents (human
sources) inside and outside of the Taliban network (some of this reporting is
so sensitive that the CIA delayed sharing it with America's closest foreign
partners).
Fourth, assessment of the GRU's established covert actions in Afghanistan. It
has previously been established with high confidence, for example, that the GRU
has supported active combat Taliban elements with funding, explicitly anti-U.S.
tactical guidance, and weaponry.
Fifth, Vladimir Putin's particular ideological animus for the United States and
historic animus over 1980s U.S. actions against the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan. At least under its current chief, Igor Kostyukov, the GRU is a
near-perfect physical manifestation of this anti-Americanism (in the coming
days, I will report on another case of the GRU's exceptionally aggressive
anti-U.S. activity).
In contrast, both the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence
Agency, despite sharing the CIA's concerns over Russia's intelligence activity
in Afghanistan, lack the independent intelligence reporting to corroborate the
CIA's bounty assessment. The NSA is particularly relevant as pertaining to the
intelligence community assessments previously given to Trump, and now, to Biden.
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