Watchdog: 75,000 U.S. vehicles, 600,000
weapons, 208 planes left in Afghanistan
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 8/25/2021 12:44:09 PM
The U.S. military is leaving behind 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons and 208 airplanes/helicopters in Afghanistan as the Taliban takes control of the country, according to the watchdog group Open the Books. “We've made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO & founder of Open the Books. “They now control 75,000 military vehicles. This is about 50,000 tactical vehicles, 20,000 Humvees they control about 1,000 mine-resistant vehicles, and even about 150 armored personnel carriers.”
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The Josef Stolen regime was honest about this. There was "a fair amount" of weapons left behind.