You think he was a US plant/asset?
Blaming someone else for a crime they themselves are probably guilty of.
It's so predictable.
https://video.nostr.build/431080534d1a6dcc30256770aff89414212f460ffa19cba31e65cc1fe788d8f9.mp4
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I think it's within the scope of possibility that the US had a hand in killing him. Fact it we can't even verify if a person existed nowadays.