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Iran Paid Taliban Fighters To Attack US Assets In Afghanistan, Leading To Trump Ordering Killing Of Soleimani
2020-08-18
[DailyCaller] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
reportedly paid bounties to a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
-backed Haqqani terrorist network for at least six attacks carried out against U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

U.S. intelligence identified the link between Iran and Haqqani following the December 2019 suicide kaboom at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, which killed two civilians and injured dozens more, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
reported Monday morning.

Two Trump administration officials said, according to CNN, that the bounties led to President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s decision to kill former Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani by dronezap in January. Trump cited Soleimani and Iran allegedly planning further attacks against U.S. forces in the region as a justification for killing him.
Sounds fair to me.
CNN’s report comes after U.S. intelligence reports leaked accusing Russia of paying bounties to Taliban-backed fighters for attacks against U.S. soldiers.
Who leaked, and why did they falsely accuse Russia to protect actual perpetrator Iran?
The White House said Trump did not act, arguing that there was a lack of consensus within the intelligence community (IC) over the veracity of the information.
..or is someone having a little too much fun with nearby Deep Staters?
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told news hounds at a press briefing in June that Trump would act if the IC reached a consensus on the intelligence.

The president stated during his hour-long interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan that he did not raise the issue during a recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
The White House, National Security Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Department of Defense did not return Daily Caller’s inquiries on the report by press time.

Iran reacts to Pompeo’s remarks regarding supply of weapons to Taliban by Tehran

[KhaamaPress] The Foreign Ministry of Iran reacted to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent remarks regarding the supply of weapons by Tehran to Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group.

Saeed Khatibzadeh, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, also blamed Washington for the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, calling it an outcome of the warmongering and interventions of Washington.

He said Pompeo’s allegations are considered as blamegame and attempts to deflect public opinion in Afghanistan with regard to US aid to ISIS, according to IRNA News Agency.

Furthermore, Khatibzadeh said US has not yet give response to public opinion’s demands regarding the identity of helicopters flying in Afghan airspace and under NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
coverage to help ISIS.

Pompeo on Wednesday said Tehran continues to arm the Taliban group today.

Responding to a question regarding Russia and Tehran’s intervention in Afghanistan, Pompeo said "We’ve made clear we know the history, we know that the Russians have armed the Taliban in the past, right. We know that the Iranians continue to arm them today. So we know these facts."

"We’ve made clear to each of them our expectations, and we will do everything we need to do to protect and defend every American soldier and, for that matter, every soldier from the Czech Republic or any other country that’s part of the Resolute Support Mission to make sure that they’re safe," he said, adding that "We have done that. We did it last year, we’ll do it again this year, and we’ll do it so long as we have soldiers in Afghanistan."
Related:
Haqqani: 2020-08-13 6 Policemen Killed in Taliban Attack in Nangarhar
Haqqani: 2020-08-05 Jalalabad: district gov stopped 2nd attack, 270 prisoners on the lam
Haqqani: 2020-08-04 Jalalabad Prison Secured After 18 Hours, 8 Attackers Killed
Related:
Bagram Air Force Base: 2019-04-11 Taliban allegedly shoots down US B-52 heavy bomber
Bagram Air Force Base: 2009-02-07 After Guantanamo, What Next for Bagram?
Bagram Air Force Base: 2008-03-14 Unprecedented Coalition strike nails the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan - Roggio
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  ^ yeah, that worked out so well.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-18 19:47  

#2  That would be like when we were arming the Afghans against the Russians?
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948   2020-08-18 11:56  

#1  What are the odds that Iran used some of the exact bills that were delivered on pallets by the Obama administration?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2020-08-18 07:03  

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