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Taliban kill squad hunting down Afghans — using US biometric data
NY Post ^ | 08/27/2021 | Siddharthya Roy and Richard Miniter

Posted on 08/27/2021 2:16:56 PM PDT by DFG

The Taliban has mobilized a special unit, called Al Isha, to hunt down Afghans who helped US and allied forces — and it’s using US equipment and data to do it.

Nawazuddin Haqqani, one of the brigade commanders over the Al Isha unit, bragged in an interview with Zenger News that his unit is using US-made hand-held scanners to tap into a massive US-built biometric database and positively identify any person who helped the NATO allies or worked with Indian intelligence. Afghans who try to deny or minimize their role will find themselves contradicted by the detailed computer records that the US left behind in its frenzied withdrawal.

The existence of the Al Isha unit has not been previously confirmed by the Taliban; until now the Haqqani Network, a terror group aligned with the Taliban, has not admitted its role in targeting Afghans or its use of America’s vast biometric database.

The Haqqani Network is “the most lethal and sophisticated insurgent group targeting US, Coalition, and Afghan forces,” according to the US National Counterterrorism Center.

The US separately has provided the Taliban with a list of Americans and Afghans it wants to evacuate from the country, a move one defense official told Politico was “just put[ing] all those Afghans on a kill list.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biometric; haqqani; taliban
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To: DFG

We have spies serving life terms for doing less.


21 posted on 08/27/2021 5:03:30 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Mark17

Only the ones still in Afghanistan on that list.


22 posted on 08/27/2021 5:24:40 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: DFG

The Biden Administration is working for the enemy. That is the only explanation for thesis amount of ineptitude.


23 posted on 08/27/2021 5:27:08 PM PDT by Chgogal (#GulagNancy is going all Cuba on Trump Supporters. #Biden lost The War on Terror.)
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To: DFG

The Biden Administration is working for the enemy. That is the only explanation for thesis amount of ineptitude.


24 posted on 08/27/2021 5:28:53 PM PDT by Chgogal (#GulagNancy is going all Cuba on Trump Supporters. #Biden lost The War on Terror.)
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To: DFG

Where’s the resistance? Guns in short supply, what happened to knives, clubs, pots of boiling water? Must not be part of the culture. If you can’t run and you know they’re coming for you, you just sit there? Ok. Whatever.


25 posted on 08/27/2021 5:55:35 PM PDT by Stentor ( )
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To: djpg

Not as long as we have Democrats.


26 posted on 08/27/2021 9:03:31 PM PDT by rellic
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