Posted on 07/07/2021 7:05:47 AM PDT by SJackson
Taliban fighters can be seen in recently released videos celebrating the seizure of US Humvees, tanks and assault weapons from Afghan security forces as the Biden administration begins its troop withdrawal before the Sept. 11 deadline.
The Taliban have been capturing key districts in the northern part of the war-torn country — including Kandahar and Badakhshan — with little or no resistance from Afghan national forces since the US announced the timetable for the departure in April.
They are extending their control of Afghanistan from their southern strongholds by filling the void left by the departing US forces.
More than a thousand Afghan soldiers fled across the border to Tajikistan after clashing with the Taliban in Badakhshan and surrendered their weapons.
The Taliban are touting the capture of the US weapons as a propaganda ploy in videos released on social media, heralding their return to power after being defeated by American troops in 2001 for harboring al Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden and allowing the terror group to plan its 9/11 attack.
he speed of the US pullout is marked by the hasty abandonment of Bagram Airfield — the hub of US military operations during the 20-year war — over the weekend without giving the Afghan government a heads up, a sudden departure that allowed looters to overrun the facility and help themselves to the numerous items left behind by the Americans.
A Taliban commander told Sky News that his fighters had taken a cache of weapons from Afghan security personnel that included 70 sniper rifles, 900 guns, 30 Humvees, 20 pickup trucks and 15 armored vehicles.
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Politics of war. Don’t know how I knew it but when I read about Massoud’s assassination I clipped that story out of the newspaper.
For years now I wonder if it was an assassination of opportunity or maybe he knew what was going to happen on 9/11...just a thought, no conspiracy but sometimes I do wonder just what it was all about. Was it financing the Taliban, financing Saddam...when did it all turn on us?
You were right.
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