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Putin and his Russia are enemies of America. We have got to elect a president who understands this. This sort of garbage puts all our troops at even more risk. Putin is trying to gin up more terrorism against us, it’s that simple.

I never thought I’d say “thanks to the BBC,” but here it is due. They investigated and figured it out.

Via Daily Mail.

The 1 minute 45 second video claimed he got hold of the Russian gun during a raid, and was testing it.

Repeatedly swearing in a fake-sounding US accent, the gunman shoots three bullets into the book using the semi-automatic Saiga 410.

He then examines the damage to the tome, although it is never stated that this is the Koran.

Now six months after it was first seen on the web, an investigation by the BBC Russian Service finds that the footage, far from showing a real US soldier, was made by a St Petersburg propaganda plant.

It is seen as a crude anti-American production by a shadowy army of internet warriors deployed to bolster the Kremlin.

The troll factory is notorious for waging an information war backing Putin and his policies at home and abroad, including his seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, and his controversial support for the Assad regime in Syria…

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