Videos suggest Russian government may be arming Taliban
BY REBECCA KHEEL at the Hill
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/343609-videos-suggest-russian-government-may-be-arming-taliban
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Taliban fighters in videos published on Tuesday by CNN claim that Russia has supplied them with weapons, appearing to support months of Pentagon suggestions that Moscow has been arming its one-time foe.
The two videos feature Taliban fighters with weapons they claim originated in Russia. Weapons experts told CNN, however, that the arms in the videos have been scrubbed of any signs of their origins, making the videos far from incontrovertible proof that Russia supplied the weaponry.
One video shows a breakaway group in western Afghanistan with weapons seized from the main Taliban, which they said were supplied by the Russian government.
"These weapons were given to the fighters of Mullah Haibatullah by the Russians via Iran," the breakaway group’s deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, said in the video, according to CNN’s translation. Mullah Haibatullah is the main Taliban’s leader.
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