US weapons left in Afghanistan sold to militant groups, sources tell BBC

bbc ^ | Yasin Rasouli & Zia Shahreyar

[BenLurkin]

Half a million weapons obtained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been lost, sold or smuggled to militant groups, sources have told the BBC - with the UN believing that some have fallen into the hands of al-Qaeda affiliates.

The Taliban took control of around one million weapons and pieces of military equipment - which had mostly been funded by the US - when it regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, according to a former Afghan official who spoke to the BBC anonymously.

As the Taliban advanced through Afghanistan in 2021, many Afghan soldiers surrendered or fled, abandoning their weapons and vehicles. Some equipment was simply left behind by US forces.

The cache included American-made firearms, such as M4 and M16 rifles, as well as other older weapons in Afghan possession that had been left behind from decades of conflict.

Sources have told the BBC that, at the closed-door UN Security Council's Sanctions Committee in Doha late last year, the Taliban admitted that at least half of this equipment is now "unaccounted" for.

A person from the committee said they had verified with other sources that the whereabouts of half a million items was unknown.

In a report in February, the UN stated that al-Qaeda affiliates, including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, and Yemen's Ansarullah movement, were accessing Taliban-captured weapons or buying them on the black market.

[b4me]

it’s been the obvious outcome since Biden left them.

[know.your.why]

Gee, whooda ever guessed that would happen? /s

[Vaduz]

Wonder how many of Biden and company open border got away’s sleeper cells have them?.

Dots always meet some places for a reason.

[clearcarbon]

"US weapons left in Afghanistan sold to militant groups, sources tell BBC"

[PeterPrinciple]

But don’t think the Vietnam debacle has anything to do with it. Other forces are at work.

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just imagine what our would might look like if we hadn’t stood up to it. the problem was not going to go away

Now it would have been better if we had done it the right way, like Trump is doing.

It takes a warrior of great strength,

http://learntocarry.com/files/On-Sheep-Wolves-And-Sheepdogs.pdf

I post the above often with the hope that some will actually read it and understand the warrior Trump and become one. As quoted in the article after instruction, “I now understand who I am!

Folks print it out, hang on your office wall and give to others. Women, you need to understand what a warrior is also.