{"id":30985,"date":"2021-04-16T01:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/russian-bounty-us-troops-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-04-16T01:40:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:40:24","slug":"us-has-low-to-moderate-confidence-in-reports-of-russian-bounty-on-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30985","title":{"rendered":"US has \u2018low to moderate confidence\u2019 in reports of Russian bounty on US troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>US intelligence evaluates claims of Afghanistan bounties<\/li>\n<li>Press reports sparked outrage and calls to confront Kremlin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US intelligence agencies have only \u201clow to moderate confidence\u201d in reports last year that Russian spies were offering Taliban militants in Afghanistan bounties for killing US soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The reports in the press citing intelligence sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jun\/27\/russia-offered-bounties-afghanistan-militants-killing-us-soldiers-report-outrage\">sparked outrage<\/a> and demands from Democrats for the Trump administration to confront the Kremlin over the issue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/russian-bounty-us-troops-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US intelligence evaluates claims of Afghanistan bountiesPress reports sparked outrage and calls to confront KremlinUS intelligence agencies have only \u201clow to moderate confidence\u201d in reports last year that Russian spies were offering Taliban militants i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,667,419,44,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-espionage","category-russia","category-taliban","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30986,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30985\/revisions\/30986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}