Original title: US media: Taliban seized large quantities of US military equipment
Reference News Network reported on August 19 According to a report on the website of USA Today on August 18, US National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan said on Tuesday that as the Taliban quickly captured Afghanistan, “a significant portion” of the military equipment provided by the United States to the Afghan security forces had been seized by the Taliban.
Sullivan said at the White House news briefing: “Obviously, we don’t know the whereabouts of every defense material, but a considerable part of it must have fallen into the hands of the Taliban. We obviously don’t think they are going to put these at the airport. Return the materials to the US.”
According to the report, since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the United States has provided Afghan security forces with equipment and training worth more than 80 billion U.S. dollars.
The report pointed out that after gaining control of Afghanistan, the Taliban released photos of the “Black Hawk” military helicopter at Kandahar Airport. The United States provided these helicopters to the Afghan army.
Sullivan said: “These’Black Hawk’ helicopters are not for the Taliban. They are for the Afghan security forces to use for self-defense.”
He said that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani asked the United States to provide him with these helicopters when he met with Joe Biden at the White House in June this year.
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