Posted on 09/16/2024 6:08:56 PM PDT by KingofZion
Last year I was working on an article about foreign fighters and volunteers in Ukraine...
Among the people I interviewed: Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man whom the F.B.I. is investigating in what it is calling an assassination attempt...
Mr. Routh, who had spent some time in Ukraine trying to raise support for the war, was seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban...
There were a few complications. Mr. Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N. C., said he never fought in Ukraine himself — he was too old and had no military experience.
*** When I talked to Mr. Routh in March of last year, he had compiled a list of hundreds of Afghans spread between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan whom he wanted to fly, somehow, to Ukraine. Mr. Routh told one Afghan he was helping: “I am just a civilian.”
My conversation with Mr. Routh was brief. He was in Washington, D.C., he said, and had planned for a two-hour meeting with some congressmen about Ukraine. (It’s unclear if that meeting ever happened.)
By the time I got off the phone with Mr. Routh some minutes later, it was clear he was in way over his head.
He talked of buying off corrupt officials, forging passports and doing whatever it took to get his Afghan cadre to Ukraine, but he had no real way to accomplish his goals. At one point he mentioned arranging a U.S. military transport flight from Iraq to Poland with Afghan refugees willing to fight.
I shook my head. It sounded ridiculous, but the tone in Mr. Routh’s voice said otherwise. He was going to back Ukraine’s war effort, no matter what.
Like many of the volunteers I interviewed, he fell off the map again. Until Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
See #16.
"In information shared with Townhall.com, Sarah Adams, a former CIA targeter and intelligence analyst, shared a Be On The Lookout (BOLO) from June 2, 2023 warning of criminal activities by Ryan Routh. The information in Ms. Adams' BOLO was, according to her, even reported to the U.S. government, specifically to the Department of State."
Zelensky supporting Freeper. Warmongers who like the perpetual wars. Some are government assets in here doing damage control to squash antiwar sentiments.
Would be hilarious if they finally overplayed their hand, but that’s wishful thinking.
Unfortunately they are pretty much untouchable. They have way too much power and money backing their operations.
That line “whom the F.B.I. is investigating in what it is calling an assassination attempt” jumped out at me too.
What a bunch of scumbags.
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If you did the things Routh did, you’d have spent a considerable amount of your adult life in a Penitentiary.
They gave him Probation over and over - and ignored Tips about his activities.
Sounds CIA all the way to poopville.
She did no background criminal check before the interview?
Sadly true.
From the article:
“I was put in touch with Mr. Routh through an old colleague and friend from Kabul, Najim Rahim. Through the strange nexus of combatants as one war ended and another began, he had learned of Mr. Routh from a source of his in Iran, a former Afghan special operations soldier who was trying to get out of Iran and fight in Ukraine.”
https://www.nytimes.com/by/najim-rahim
Najim Rahim
Najim Rahim is a reporter in the Kabul, Afghanistan, bureau of The New York Times. He has worked for various local and international news outlets since 2011, after graduating from Herat University’s journalism and mass-communication program in Afghanistan. He has worked for The Times since 2015.
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Ukebot dear
That overlap where the left wokies and righties still swimming in the Cold War overlap
You go to East Nashville which is like Portland on the Cumberland
You see
Ukraine flag like zeepers fly
The hamas or Palestinians flag
The latest LBGTQ+ Flag that reminds me of the post Botha South African banner
Black Lives Matter signage
They live to advertise their virtue signaling
Zeeper is an anti-Communist.
Then why do all the Marxists identify with them?
The group of congresscritter he wanted to meet with was the US OSCE / Helsinki Commission.
Lots of “insider-incestuous” relationships there between all those NYTimes-Afghan-Refugee-Ukraine War fundraiser groups, isn’t there?
But “none” specifically mention democrat party or the CIA or the Biden household, so I guess there is no connection there at all, right? /sarchasm- that gaping hole in a liberal’s logic
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