RED TEXTNYT reporter confirms Ryan Wesley Routh “was seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban.”
The reporter “was put in touch with Mr. Routh through my old colleague and friend from Kabul, Najim Rahim… he had learned of Mr. Routh through a source of his in Iran, a former Afghan special operations soldier who was trying to get out of Iran and fight in Ukraine.”
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