Biden left Taliban $7B in weapons, fingerprint scanners used to hunt US allies: damning report
Story by Caitlin Doornbos • 14h
New York Post
Biden left Taliban $7B in weapons, fingerprint scanners used to hunt US allies: damning report
WASHINGTON – Much of the $7.1 billion in military equipment and technology President Biden left behind in Afghanistan after his botched withdrawal was still operable despite Pentagon claims to the contrary – including fingerprint devices the Taliban later used to track down down American’s abandoned Afghan allies, according to a comprehensive report by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the fiasco.
Throughout the August 2021 withdrawal and its aftermath, both the Defense Department and the Harris-Biden administration repeatedly asserted that “nearly all equipment used by US military forces in Afghanistan was either retrograded or destroyed prior to our withdrawal.”
However, the report, released Sunday following a nearly two-year investigation, indicated that the administration’s denials were largely semantics.
While the US military destroyed or moved most of its own equipment, they left intact billions in weapons and materiel transferred to the Afghan military, which collapsed along with the Western-backed Kabul government before the last American troops left the central Asian nation on Aug. 30, 2021.
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