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Taliban Celebrate Three Years in Power with Parade at Bagram Air Base
Newsweek ^ | Aug 14, 2024

Posted on 08/14/2024 8:13:34 AM PDT by McGruff

The Taliban marked the third anniversary of its return to power on Wednesday with a celebration at Bagram Air Base, a former U.S. military stronghold in Afghanistan.

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The parade also showcased military equipment left behind by U.S. and NATO forces, including helicopters, Humvees, and tanks.

Troops marched with an array of weaponry, and a motorcycle unit displayed the Taliban flag.

In Kabul, pickup trucks filled with men celebrated the takeover, some posing with rifles, while in Helmand province, men carried yellow canisters to symbolize explosives used in past conflicts.

Wednesday was declared a national holiday by the Taliban.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; california; kamalaharris; nancypelosi; taliban
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Those photos make me boiling mad!
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Better not watch this then. Perhaps some Freepers can ID the type of equipment

Video
The Taliban held a military parade with the equipment that the US left during the withdrawal from Afghanistan

https://rumble.com/v5axxoz-taliban-holds-a-military-parade-with-abandoned-us-equipment.html


21 posted on 08/14/2024 9:18:06 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: McGruff

Was Joe invited?


22 posted on 08/14/2024 9:35:08 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: janetjanet998

bttt


23 posted on 08/14/2024 9:37:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: McGruff

you won’t see this on the nightly news. Norduh o’Donnell should take note, this is why her ratings sucked, she withheld the truth, now she’s fired for poor ratings.


24 posted on 08/14/2024 9:38:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: McGruff

Would be great if Trump gets elected he goes back and gets the equipment back 4 years later and show how it should have been done.


25 posted on 08/14/2024 9:40:08 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: McGruff

Sounds like a target rich environment. That would have taken them by surprise.


26 posted on 08/14/2024 9:53:11 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: ronnie raygun

Party Taliban style.


27 posted on 08/14/2024 9:54:08 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: McGruff
Wednesday was declared a national holiday by the Taliban.

Soon to be named Joe Biden Day by the grateful Taliban.

28 posted on 08/14/2024 9:59:15 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Huskrrrr

Biden/Harris did that, FRiend.

Let’s spread the blame where it belongs!


29 posted on 08/14/2024 10:13:16 AM PDT by Ignatz (The bees don't bother to tell the flies that honey tastes better than dung.)
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To: McGruff

Gee, thanks, Joe. Maybe you shoulda flew there and helped them celebrate you miserable SOB.


30 posted on 08/14/2024 10:25:22 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Carl Vehse

....I believe I read on another site that our “hero troops” left their military police dogs in their cages to die as they hauled-ass out of there....can’t verify this but maybe somebody else saw that article or heard about it....no matter what, that withdrawal showed the world how weak and irrelevant the U.S. is now....


31 posted on 08/14/2024 10:27:28 AM PDT by TokarevM57 (....Standing slightly to the right of Atila the Hun and proud of it!!)
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To: McGruff

Didn’t look like US helicopters to me. Maybe Russian or other country. Some of the sand colored stuff looked like MRAP versions and the OD stuff in the background hard to tell. Regardless, the trove of equipment and weapons BIDEN abandoned there is enormous.


32 posted on 08/14/2024 10:31:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: McGruff

I refuse to go any farther with this post. Seeing just one picture sends my blood pressure thru the roof. Thanks OBiden, YOU DID THAT!


33 posted on 08/14/2024 10:36:48 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: McGruff

The are very well armed!
The best equipment available!
I am wondering, who paid for that stuff?
Oh, wait a minute, it was me and the rest of US taxpayers!


34 posted on 08/14/2024 10:39:53 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: McGruff

Yrump needs to use the video in a campaign ad.


35 posted on 08/14/2024 10:41:42 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: McGruff

Target rich environment. Just saying.


36 posted on 08/14/2024 11:08:14 AM PDT by daniel boob
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To: Ignatz

Yes, good point.


37 posted on 08/14/2024 11:36:05 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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