The New York Times revealed in its recent dossier of dirt that NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan were the targets of this bounty program and Taliban-linked militants were the beneficiaries.
The Times based its bold claims on evidence from U.S. intelligence officials, which was extracted from Afghan militants who were captured by U.S. military forces during active combat.
Intelligence officials in Washington D.C. believe that leaders of Unit 29155 of Russia’s military intelligence agency are the engineers of this Russian/Taliban bounty program.
In its statement, Russia’s state department lambasted the U.S. government for its fruitless expedition of wasted force, which has been applied overwhelmingly to a failed state for over the last two decades.
The Mideast nation of Syria is a bloody battleground state where the U.S. and Russia have been at war since 2015.