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Weekends: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan w/ Tariq Ali

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Did the Russians Pay the Tolybon Bounties for Us Soldiers?

A lot of russians set up helicopter companies because they had pilots who were very experienced in their own disaster story in ofganistan. And now that they were privatized, no longer controlled by the state, they actually went and fought with the americans as mercenaries. That's what happened. So far from the russian celebrating the death of a soldier, private russians were trying to help the united states and a lot of money, which i'm told they did. Yet, you're right, that is not something that has been reported on extensively here in the united states. The paperss were ouw devastating for those who didn't what was going on. I mean

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