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Dozens of looters moved into Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield just hours after U.S. troops vacated the airfield after a nearly 20-year occupation.
The district administrator for the town of Bagram, Darwaish Raufi, told the Associated Press that since the troops' departure was not coordinated with local officials, the airfield's gates were not secured. This allowed looters to unlawfully enter before Afghan forces could secure the airfield. "Unfortunately the Americans left without any coordination with Bagram district officials or the governor's office," Raufi said.
"They were stopped and some have been arrested and the rest have been cleared from the base," Raufi said while speaking with the Associated Press. The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces are now in full control of the airfield. "Right now our Afghan security forces are in control both inside and outside of the base," Raufi said.
The looters raided numerous buildings before their arrests.
https://www.newsweek.com/looters-moved-afghanistans-bagram-airfield-hours-after-us-troops-left-1606385
stillcool
(32,626 posts)msongs
(67,395 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,783 posts)The Americans leaving must have been in total secrecy and invisible to the local administrators and Afghan military.
albacore
(2,398 posts)Oh... wait. There IS no Taliban air force.
Let that sink in. We lost... to a bunch with no air assets.
And they never numbered any more than 30,000 fighters at any time.
Time to recognize that we can't control the world.
Deuxcents
(16,193 posts)Weve seen this movie before.. my heart goes to our military families.