<story><title>Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment</title><url>https://www.theepochtimes.com/stranded-afghans-delete-social-media-as-taliban-seizes-us-surveillance-equipment_3958444.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomc1985</author><text>Why oh why didn&amp;#x27;t the military destroy equipment left behind in the wind-down? At least at the bases... where they keep heaps of explosives for the purpose of destroying things?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgbrenner</author><text>These devices, like most of the equipment the Taliban captured, was in the hands of ANA troops and was abandoned during their surrender&amp;#x2F;retreat[0].&lt;p&gt;This equipment was purchased by Afghanistan from the US (using US funds, obviously). So technically, it wasn&amp;#x27;t US property.. and they had no right to destroy it.&lt;p&gt;0. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pri.org&amp;#x2F;stories&amp;#x2F;2021-08-19&amp;#x2F;us-biometric-devices-are-hands-taliban-they-could-be-used-target-afghans-who&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pri.org&amp;#x2F;stories&amp;#x2F;2021-08-19&amp;#x2F;us-biometric-devices-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment</title><url>https://www.theepochtimes.com/stranded-afghans-delete-social-media-as-taliban-seizes-us-surveillance-equipment_3958444.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomc1985</author><text>Why oh why didn&amp;#x27;t the military destroy equipment left behind in the wind-down? At least at the bases... where they keep heaps of explosives for the purpose of destroying things?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>XorNot</author><text>This has been the ongoing incredible thing about all of this: the US just up and leaving fully functional equipment all over the place. I would&amp;#x27;ve thought &amp;quot;slap some C4 to the engine block&amp;quot; would be standard procedure if you&amp;#x27;re abandoning a base?</text></comment>