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canetoad

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19. Exactly

Reply to WarGamer (Reply #18)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 08:04 PM

Dec 2

Although the Daily Beast says explicitly; "Either he accepted the mission, or his family in Afghanistan would be beaten, murdered, and possibly beheaded."

It's always possible that the Taliban entered the US and tracked him down, but the above sentence looks like a straight-out lie.

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