“United States intelligence officers and Special Operations forces in Afghanistan alerted their superiors as early as January to a suspected Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan,” the New York Times reports.
Spies and Commandos Warned of Russian Bounties
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