Monday, June 29, 2020

U.K. Now Claiming Russia Offered Taliban Fighters Bounties To Attack British Troops



SKY News: Russia offered Taliban-linked fighters bounties to attack British troops - as senior Tory MP seeks answers

The group responsible for the payments is the same Russian intelligence outfit behind the Skripal poisonings, Sky News is told.

A senior Conservative MP is seeking an urgent question in the Commons on Monday about an alleged plot that a Russian intelligence unit offered Taliban-linked fighters bounties to kill coalition troops in Afghanistan.

British security officials have confirmed to Sky News that the reports about the plot are true.

If Tobias Ellwood, chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, is granted his urgent question, it will require a government minister to respond in person.

Mr Ellwood told Sky News: "I think it's completely unacceptable that a fellow permanent member of the UN Security Council is now seen to be training and supplying arms to the very militia that has prevented peaceful conclusions to this decade-old conflict (in Afghanistan).

"So serious is this that I'll be seeking an urgent question on Monday and will be encouraging the UK to raise this matter at the UN and indeed our NATO allies."

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WNU Editor: The problem with the above SKY News claim is that they do not mention that there has been no UK combat casualties in Afghanistan since 2015, and the reason why is that they left Afghanistan that year .... UK military and civilian fatalities during the Afghanistan War from October 7, 2001 to March 29, 2019 (Statista). If Russia was paying bounties in the past few years, they got a zero return on their monies.

Update: There are U.K. soldiers in Afghanistan serving as trainers .... Up to 1,100 British troops in Afghanistan could be home within just over a year after US-Taliban peace deal (Daily Mail).

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

The questions that arise are: was the President briefed, and if not, why not, and why was Congress not briefed,' she wrote.

'Congress and the country need answers now. I therefore request an interagency brief for all House Members immediately. Congress needs to know what the intelligence community knows about this significant threat to American troops and our allies and what options are available to hold Russia accountable,' Pelosi added.

Shortly there after, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer added his voice to the mix and demanded a similar briefing for the upper chamber.

'I am calling for the Directors of National Intelligence and the CIA to immediately brief all 100 Senators on reports that Russia placed bounties on US troops in Afghanistan. We need to know whether or not President Trump was told this information, and if so, when,' he said in a statement.

War News Updates Editor said...

Republican leaders were briefed early today. They were satisfied with what they heard. Democrat leaders will be briefed tomorrow morning.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/nancy-pelosi-demands-briefing-russian-bounties-344219

Anonymous said...

Easy at 12 o'clock high. Another copy & paste strafing run by a "_________"

Anonymous said...

Note, it is the British again. British intel backed Chrissy Steal. America is going to have to reassess its' intel relationship with the Brits.

Anonymous said...

1. CS is not spelled the way you spell it.
2. He is no longer with Brit intel

In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations.

The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest.

These officials' concerns about the calls, and particularly Trump's deference to Putin, take on new resonance with reports the President may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan -- and yet took no action. CNN's sources said there were calls between Putin and Trump about Trump's desire to end the American military presence in Afghanistan but they mentioned no discussion of the supposed Taliban bounties.

Anonymous said...

1. CS is not spelled the way you spell it.
2. He is no longer with Brit intel

1. I spell it the way I want to spell it.

I spell it Steal instead of Steele, because IMO he has stolen what was rightfully not his. Chrissy Steal is and was engaged in a smear campaign. It is my opinion and we still have free speech. Jack booted thugs, who shout "Hail Victory" like you, have not quite taken over just yet.

You know where Chrissy comes form. You use the same 'name calling' yourself, but are now upset that someone else does the same.

Shove off.

2. Does a person ever really leave the club?

How would you know if they do or don't? You were never part of that club.

Anonymous said...

Dang I missed it, but it was the copy & paste artiste at 6:23. The artiste shows a great skill and real personal touch in their pasting.

Anonymous said...

Intelligence on Russian bounty plot was included in the President's Daily Brief earlier this year, source says -
YOU MAY NOT LIKE MY COPY/PASTE BUT STILL OFFERS MORE THAN GIRLY SNARK COMMENTS FROM TINY EGO

Anonymous said...

I don't need a bird dog too flush you. I call it and you break cover.

Also

"The source said there was some other information that did not corroborate this view but said, nonetheless, "

"The information was serious enough the National Security Council staff held a meeting during the spring to discuss "possible response options," including sanctions, if the intelligence developed to the point it was deemed ready to take to the President for any possible action, the official said."

So the NSC was not sure. It was not developed and they gave the president no COA.

What COA did they give the president Mr. L?

You cannot answer that, because they gave the president no COA.

But try anyway. I like to know what a weasel sound like when it squeaks.

Anonymous said...

SNOPES White House Aware of Russian Bounties in 2019
You can't handle the truth!

Anonymous said...

Republicans Reject Trump Story on Russian Bounties in Afghanistan

Anonymous said...

Bounties Vs. Ballots The Real Reason Why Trump’s Newest Russia Scandal Is Different

Anonymous said...



The White House is under pressure to explain how much the administration knew about allegations Russia offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops.

Officials have insisted that President Donald Trump was not "personally" informed of the alleged plot in Afghanistan in 2019.

But reports say the president received a written briefing earlier this year.

There is concern that Mr Trump might have had access to information about threats to US forces but did not act.

The intelligence reportedly arrived amid US attempts to negotiate a peace deal to end the 19-year war in Afghanistan and while Mr Trump sought to improve relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Lapides started gnawing on that bone at 7:!9 and was still at it continuously to 7:55.

Don't worry, he will be back for an encore, but do not expect any originally thinking on his own.

Any corroboration? I read a CNN piece, where the source admitted that they did not have any.

Also, if this was so bad and everyone was dogpiling Trump in December 2019 with impeachment, why not bring it up then? But they did't this looks like another go at getting rid of Trump.


To present the case in December would have been perfect, but it did not happen. Because it had no legs?

Maybe it is desperation?

Flynn targeted for destruction because he wanted to investigate Brennan's 'off the books' billions of dollars at CIA?

Maybe Brennan and company are throwing shit on the wall to see, if it will stick, because Brennan does not want to go to prison?

I would consider a faction in the CIA angle. You got to ask if that is how you want your public debate ... through leaks.

The prime minister of Pakistan called Bin Laden a Martyr. So what are we doing in Afghanistan? They turned off or slowed our supply lines during Bush and Obama. No one solved this problem. This is a very public problem that has been around for 13 or 14 years, but you only care about getting Trump. This isn't about the troops. This is about you, The Democrat party and Trump.


Hoe do you supply the troops, when the MSR and ASR are cut? Do you have a plan Mr. Lapides?

Pakistan cuts NATO supply line

Dateline: ISLAMABAD:, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 23:17 IST

Pakistan cuts supply lines, but US has options

November 29, 2011

"One U.S. military officer claimed that Pakistani military forces
flew multiple helicopter missions to resupply Taliban fighters inside Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province in 2007"

" an October 2008 press report claimed that British officials covered up evidence
that a Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan in 2007 was in fact a Pakistani military office"

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33498.pdf

Your outrage is highly selective.