U.S. Military Says Equipment Left in Afghanistan 'May Be Beneficial to Taliban'
The U.S. military has acknowledged that equipment it provided to Afghan security forces and left behind might prove useful for the Taliban, but said such assets would not prove a security concern for the United States or those aligned with it.
"We are aware there is likely a large amount of equipment provided to Afghan forces now in Taliban hands," Pentagon spokesperson Eric Pahon told Newsweek.
Pahon said, however, that the Defense Department was "not concerned with the loss of any significant technological or sensitive capability" as the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces "were not provided with these kinds of capabilities."
He declined to "speak to what the ultimate disposition of this equipment may be" or "speculate on what a future government entity in Afghanistan may or may not do" with such equipment at a time when the Taliban was facing resistance from opposition forces in the Panjshir valley as well as the lurking threat of the Islamic State militant group's Khorasan branch (ISIS-K).
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