Fact Checker: No, the Taliban did not seize $83 billion of U.S. weapons

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/31/no-taliban-did-not-seize-83-billion-us-weapons/


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The Facts

The $83 billion figure — technically, $82.9 billion — comes from an estimate in the July 30 quarterly report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for all spending on the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund since the U.S. invasion in 2001.

In recent years, the spending has decreased. For fiscal 2021, about $3 billion was spent on security forces, which was similar to 2020.

Separately, the U.S. government spent about $36 billion on shoring up the Afghan government. The total bill for the Afghan project added up to more than $144 billion.

In any case, the $83 billion spent on the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) goes back two decades, including almost $19 billion spent between 2002 and 2009.
A 2017 Government Accountability Office report estimated that about 29 percent of the funds spent on the Afghan security forces between 2005 and 2016 went to equipment and transportation. (The transportation costs related to transporting equipment and for contracted pilots and airplanes for transporting officials to meetings. There appears to be no way to segregate transportation spending.)

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[Wounded Bear]

1. It's up to $83B now? I thought it was $30B last week...

funny how those rumors and lies can grow.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. The "libertarian" step brother just loved that Biden was leaving Afghanistan...

then he posted that faux fact which included a demand to impeach Biden. LOL.

[PortTack]

3. According to the veterans of that war, they have no way to maintain them

The helicopters are particularly fussy and need a trained crew to maintain them and keep them flying.
Besides, ask any military brass, they never intended on bringing them back

This is just more media spin

[lagomorph777]

4. Hopefully they use the choppers to transport Taliban bigwigs...

...and crash a few of them.

[PortTack]

7. Ha! good one ..saw one video clip, they had a Blackhawk running but couldn't get it airborne

[lagomorph777]

8. So macho, but they can't get it up...

[underpants]

5. I guess Trump "did his research"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Won't stop the Fux Noise outrage machine

[SteelReel]

9. If the orange dipstick

is so worried about the military equipment
why didn't he start to collect it after he surrendered to the taliban?