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Doubts about Vladimir Putin’s health have been re-ignited today as leaked Pentagon documents claim the Russian dictator is undergoing chemotherapy for a cancer diagnosis. Top secret intelligence papers were published online last week in what may become the worst breach of US intelligence in American living memory. -snip- Embarrassed US authorities are desperately trying to locate the source of the leaked information, but the 100 pages of sensitive information offer an incredible insight into intimate details about the Russian president’s state of health. Running in parallel to this are even more incendiary rumours about a suspected plot from within Putin’s...

The highly classified leaked Pentagon documents posted to social media offer a pessimistic US viewpoint about the state of the war in Ukraine, highlighting weaknesses in Ukraine’s weaponry and air defenses and predicting a stalemate in the war for months to come. The documents, which appear to date from February and March, detail many of Ukraine’s perceived military shortfalls as Kyiv prepares for a spring counteroffensive against Russia. Several of the classified documents warn that Ukraine’s medium-range air defenses to protect front-line troops will be “completely reduced by May 23,” suggesting Russia could soon have aerial superiority and Ukraine could...

Classified documents from a Pentagon intelligence report have appeared on messaging app Discord since February with top Russian officials reportedly wanting to sabotage Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin plans to "throw" Vladimir Putin's Ukraine war while he's allegedly receiving chemotherapy, leaked Pentagon documents claim. -snip- According to the leaked documents, which have since been removed from the platforms, Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev and Russian Chief of the General Staff Valeriy Gerasimov want to "throw" the president's war while he's getting treatment for cancer. The memo says: "[The source] on 22 February indicated that Gerasimov reportedly planned to continue...

Mr Obama fears a backlash against U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Further images purportedly from the 2,000 include one of a naked man covered in excrement with a guard standing in front of him. Others yet to be released are alleged to show guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick and hooded prisoners in transport planes with copies of Playboy magazine showing naked women open on their laps. The president had previously committed to allowing them to be seen but changed his mind after senior generals said it could place U.S. troops serving in Iraq...

WASHINGTON, Jul 29, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Iraq has learned how to hide its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs from U.S. surveillance based on information provided by American defectors to Russia and the Soviet Union before it, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday. Rumsfeld told an audience at Joint Forces Command in Suffolk, Va., that Iraq has "deeply buried" its weapons facilities. "The Iraqis have benefited from American spies defecting to the Soviet Union or Russia and providing information as to how we do things, and then they proliferate that information on how another country can...