Embassy helicopters gleaming under powerful overhead lights. He walked inside a hangar and gawked with his squad mates at the U.S. had tried to help create to eliminate people like him. With a gloved hand, he snapped up the night-vision goggles on his ballistic helmet, looking like the very model of an Afghan soldier the U.S. “This is ghanima,” said one uniformed Taliban fighter: war booty. Afghan soldiers who didn’t surrender shed their uniforms and gear and fled, following many of their military and political leaders. military equipment and weaponry given to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, which collapsed in the 11 days before the Taliban seized Kabul, the capital, on Aug. The group’s blindingly fast sweep through most of Afghanistan netted it billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. troops unintentionally bequeathed them in what had been the United States’ last redoubt in Afghanistan. Then they spent hours examining the bonanza of materiel that U.S. pickup trucks, wearing American-made uniforms and brandishing American M-4 and M-16 rifles. When Taliban fighters rode triumphantly into Kabul airport early Tuesday, they did so on U.S.
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