213: Improbable tales of Russian bounty paid to the Taliban for American KIA. @thomasjoscelyn @billroggio @FDD
Image: UN: Foreign Terrorist Fighters; Manual for Judicial Training Institutes South-Eastern Europe (UNODC (https://shop.un.org/sources/unodc) , UNDCP (https://shop.un.org/sources/undcp) ) Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; @billroggio @thomasjoscelyn; in re: Why would bounties need to be offered? WH needs an incentive? CENTCOM commander: No causal link has been proffered. There’s already an incredible scale of violence; hard to believe that the Kremlin had much effect in the grand scheme of things as practiced by al Qaeda, the Pakistanis, and a wealth of other groups. Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), an Uzbek jihadist group loyal to the Taliban that fights under its banner. Taliban asserts that there’s no foreign fighter in Afghanistan. Absurd. “In a tweet released earlier today by its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban claimed that ‘these images have been stolen from our archive’ [by LongWarJournal].” “Disappointment in American leadership”: few pols or others can articulate whom we’re fighting or why. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/generation-jihad-ep-18-what-we-dont-know-about-russian-bounties.php https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/taliban-attempts-to-cover-up-images-posted-by-an-uzbek-jihadist-group-in-afghanistan.php