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The Taliban denied that it accepted bounties from Russian intelligence in exchange for killing US and NATO soldiers.“These kinds of deals with the Russian intelligence agency are baseless — our target killings and assassinations were ongoing in years before, and we did it on our own resources,” Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, told the New York Times.“That changed after our deal with the Americans, and their lives are secure and we don’t attack them.”claimed President Trump and the National Security Council were informed of the covert operations in late March, as the country was sinking into the COVID-19 pandemic.The administration spent months deliberating how best to respond, but has so far taken no action, the outlet reported.Meanwhile, some opportunistic Democrats pounced after the news broke Friday evening.The Russian entity responsible for the alleged bounties, known as Unit 29155, is an arm of the country’s military intelligence agency, the G.R.U., and has developed a notorious reputation for carrying out covert and extralegal actions on behalf of the state.The group was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails in the 2016 US presidential elections and the 2018 poisoning of ex-Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England.Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to respond.It’s unclear why the G.R.U. was targeting US and coalition soldiers.Some intelligence officials have speculated the country could be trying to derail peace talks between the US and Afghanistan, while others believe the bounties might have been offered as revenge against a 2018 battle in Syria which killed hundreds of government-aligned forces and a number of Russian mercenaries.Meanwhile, some opportunistic Democrats used the report Saturday to try to attack the president.

The Taliban denied that it accepted bounties from Russian intelligence in exchange for killing US and NATO soldiers.“These kinds of deals with the Russian intelligence agency are baseless — our target killings and assassinations were ongoing in years before, and we did it on our own resources,” Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, told the New York Times.“That changed after our deal with the Americans, and their lives are secure and we don’t attack them.”claimed President Trump and the National Security Council were informed of the covert operations in late March, as the country...

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