Taliban Gained Huge Amount Of “Ghonimah”

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Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage showing the Taliban fighters in Afghanistan displaying what appears to be a huge amount of US weapons seized as ghonimah (war booties) from the American military.

The fighters in that video say they seized the arms cache from two US outposts in eastern Nuristan province. The attacks were carried out on 3rd of October this year. Around 200 Taliban fighters were involved in the raid.

Days after the alleged assault, the US military pulled out its entire troops from the area and left behind a lot of weapons which fell into the hands of Taliban fighters.

The region of Nuristan is now controlled by the Taliban. The NATO ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) questioned as to why the Americans left a lot of ammunition at the base on their withdrawal which ended up in the possession of the Taliban.




[Jonah Hull, Al Jazeera]