{"id":12132,"date":"2025-06-11T01:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12132"},"modified":"2025-06-11T01:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:00:23","slug":"taliban-fake-operation-a-bloody-show-to-defraud-public-opinion-and-earn-us-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-fake-operation-a-bloody-show-to-defraud-public-opinion-and-earn-us-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Fake Operation; A Bloody Show to Defraud Public Opinion and Earn US Dollars."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12133\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Da-usa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Following reports of a Taliban night raid on an \u201cISIS hideout\u201d in western Kabul, a former CIA official has given a different account of the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sarah Adams, a former CIA officer, has posted a note on the social network X that the main target of the operation was actually a Taliban intelligence base and not a position of the ISIS Khorasan branch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban had previously announced that its forces had attacked an ISIS-affiliated center in the 15th district of Kabul on Monday evening. This account was also confirmed by a number of local sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>However, Sarah Adams says that the building that the Taliban stormed was controlled by an intelligence unit called \u201cZulfiqar\u201d, which is one of the Taliban\u2019s intelligence branches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>She added: \u201cWe have closely examined this place and have significant information about it. This location was one of the key points in our field investigations into the 2021 ISIS-K attack on Kabul airport.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to Adams, by launching such show-off operations, the Taliban is trying to present itself as an active force in the fight against terrorism and thereby gain the approval of Western countries, especially the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>He also claimed that in return for carrying out such operations, the Taliban receives specific financial assistance from the United States under the name of \u201canti-terrorism funds,\u201d which are transferred to the group through Doha.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports of a Taliban night raid on an \u201cISIS hideout\u201d in western Kabul, a former CIA official has given a different account of the event. Sarah Adams, a former CIA officer, has posted a note on the social network X that the main target of the operation was actually a Taliban intelligence base and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12138,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions\/12138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}