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Klaralven

(7,510 posts) Sun Aug 15, 2021, 07:03 AM Aug 2021

AFGHAN FORCES SURRENDER BAGRAM AIR BASE TO TALIBAN

An Afghan official says forces at Bagram air base, home to a prison housing 5,000 inmates, have surrendered to the Taliban.

Bagram district chief Darwaish Raufi said Sunday that the surrender handed the one-time American base over to the insurgents.

The prison housed both Taliban and Islamic State group fighters.

It came as the Taliban entered the outskirts of Kabul.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/live-updates-taliban-enter-kabul/article35922825.ece

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AFGHAN FORCES SURRENDER BAGRAM AIR BASE TO TALIBAN (Original Post) Klaralven Aug 2021 OP

All of that training gab13by13 Aug 2021 #1

Beginning to look like it was all a big scam. People got very rich on taxpayer dime. Irish_Dem Aug 2021 #3

Are they going to release the prisoners? jimfields33 Aug 2021 #2

Already have released them according to MSNBC. Prisoners were seen "streaming out". Solly Mack Aug 2021 #4

gab13by13

(32,314 posts)

1. All of that training

Reply to Klaralven (Original post)

Sun Aug 15, 2021, 07:08 AM

Aug 2021

and money spent to create an Afghan army was wasted time and money. The Afghan army won't fight, that's why the Taliban is moving so swiftly. The only opposition they got was from war lords.

I think the Taliban strategy came from the GQP strategy.