Posted on 09/02/2021 6:37:57 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Taliban fighters are feeling angry and betrayed Wednesday after discovering that Afghan National Army helicopters abandoned at Kabul’s airport have been rendered inoperable by departing U.S. troops, according to most of the mainstream media outlets.
An Al Jazeera reporter who toured a hangar on the military side of the airport said in a video that the terrorist group “expected the Americans to leave helicopters like this in one piece for their use.”
“When I said to them, ‘why do you think that the Americans would have left everything operational for you’? They said because we believe it is a national asset and we are the government now and this could have come to great use for us,” she continued.
This morning a video surfaced of American soldiers as they are smashing the windows, devices & military vehicles, before they withdrew from Afghanistan.
Video below:
It seems that the soldiers were working on their own when they broke the military equipment because the Taliban’s who are very active on Twitter just posted a video where they claim that they have all the spare parts they need to fix everything that was broken.
Video below:
A U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson told Fox News on Wednesday that “we disabled/demilitarized that equipment at Hamid Karzai International Airport prior to our departure.”
But even if the DOD claims that they have destroyed the military equipement the question still remains on why the equipment wasn’t returned back on U.S. soil?
The Afghans now seem to sell some of the state-of-the-art military technology to our biggest enemies.
A social media post originating in Iran posted several images of Humvees loaded on transport trucks stopped on the side of an Iranian highway. An Iranian Telegram channel that covers military stories has released these “exclusive” images that purportedly show humvees and other military vehicles spotted on the Semnan-Garmsar road in Iran.
The source which is an Iranian journalist reporting for BBC claims that he is sure that those are Iranian roads:
The equipment is likely s tiny portion of the massive military cache the Biden administration abandoned in Afghanistan. It would make sense for the Taliban to sell off anything they don’t intend to use in order to fund their government without having to deal with any U.S. demands.
I wonder if the industrial military complex will sell them replacement parts?
LOL...again, while I commend them for doing what they did, it seemed mostly cosmetic.
Or even doused the gear with gas and set it alight.
This was just for show, the brass didn’t want the stuff demiled or it would have been done right.
Young guys with broken equipment, spare parts, and tools? Sounds like a natural situation. Some of the results may be messy, but expect a lot of the stuff will get back on the road.
We'll know when we learn Milley is furious about the "vandalism" and the soldiers are facing court martial.
UN says Afganahastan is running out of food.
Maybe they can trade military equipment for that food.
Biden couldn't very well destroy everything and yet claim he thought the 300,000 Afghans we trained were going to take over and get 'er done.
I think you are right...
How could any commander risk leaving the equipment that might be used against us??? Against his own men?
“Sure, but do they have the expertise to repair/install them?”
I would imagine some of the same people who taught them to fly the helicopters will also teach them how to repair them.
What a surprise... 4.5 million people live in Kabul. Biden gave the country to and who knows how many billions of dollars worth of weaponry to 75 thousand Taliban. They have completely disrupted the supply chain. By the time this is over who knows how many will starve. And believe me the Taliban could not care less.
The Taliban ARE terrorists.
So if the Pentagon is working with the Taliban against terrorists, guess what that makes the Pentagon and guess who they think the terrorists are.
Hard to believe our Government bodies are working with terrorists......thus handing even more weapons and armor and money to these despicable people.
Yes and no.
I don’t put anything past democrats these days.
Well they’ve pretty much done everything to tear down this country and our military....and our citizens. To say we’re living in a twilight zone where nothing is as it is hardly says enough.
Only hope I have is our military is beginning to turn against this administration.....as some are speaking out now. Enough of them come together and Biden will not have military protection to prevent booting his butt and this administration out of office.
Good point.
I’m guessing the units there were light infantry that doesn’t train with them and like didn’t have many thermites.
If it was a mech unit nothing would be salvageable.
When I was on an SF base in Bolivia in the 90s every peace of sensitive equipment has a thermite grenade sitting on top of it.
Order was if we had to bug out the last man would pop it.
I have no idea why they did not do it this time.
So the troops broke the windows on some of the vehicles.What the hell good does that do? Its only a temporary inconvenience.
What the should have done is destroyed the transmissions or the engines of these vehicles.That would have been a long term issue with a lot more difficulty to repair without the parts.
My thought from yesterday!
These soldiers will probably be reprimanded for destruction of government property.
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