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Media: GRU paid terrorists millions of dollars for attacks
The Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) ordered terrorist attacks from the Taliban and other groups in Afghanistan against the United States and its allies. For each killed soldier, the Taliban received about 200 thousand dollars, and in total the GRU paid the militants at least 30 million dollars. An investigation into this was published by The Insider and Der Spiegel.
The Insider journalists managed to find two groups of agents who transferred funds to the Taliban for carrying out terrorist attacks. One of these groups disguised itself as a company that trades in precious stones. For their work, couriers received asylum and real estate in Russia.
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For the first time, the fact that Russia was paying the Taliban to organize terrorist attacks became known in 2020, when the media published a leaked report from American intelligence agencies. The Taliban leadership denied that the attacks were linked to Russia. The US Secretary of Defense said at the time that "the defense intelligence agencies were unable to confirm the findings of this report."
Three former senior Afghan National Security Agency (NSA) officials and one former Afghan official told The Insider that many of the Taliban's attacks from 2016 to 2019 were financed by Russia. The NSA was disbanded in 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.
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One former Afghan NSA employee estimated that Russia paid the Taliban at least $30 million. According to him, for each killed US or coalition soldier, the terrorists received about 200 thousand dollars, and for killed Afghan soldiers the reward was less. By doing so, Russia wanted to “encourage militants to take more risks by attacking American targets in Afghanistan,” said Douglas London, a CIA official who was responsible for counterterrorism in the region from 2016 to 2018.
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