Western taxpayers have paid billions to equip the Afghan army. The Taliban are now taking over weapons, ammunition, drones, helicopters and equipment they could only dream of.
–Taliban fighters photographed in Kabul on Monday with an American M1117, a military combat vehicle that costs up to ten million kroner.
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In the photos spread in the media, the Taliban insurgents have previously posed with Russian AK-47 rifles, so-called Kalashnikovs. Now several of them have replaced these with modern American weapons, writes Reuters.
After the Afghan army collapsed and the Taliban took power in the country, Huge amounts of weapons, military equipment and vehicles from the West have now fallen into the hands of the enemy that NATO and Afghan security forces have been fighting for 20 years.
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