Taliban Military Parade Showcasing Abandoned US Military Equipment Celebrates The 3rd Anniversary Of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal

✪ Invited diplomatic officials from China & Iran were present and in attendance at Bagram Air Base…

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n Wednesday, the Taliban terrorist organization celebrated the third anniversary of President Joe Biden facilitating their return to power in Afghanistan by hosting a large military parade on the former U.S. air base site at Bagram featuring U.S.-made equipment and welcoming envoys from Iran and China.

August 15 will mark three years since the fundamentalist Taliban terror group stormed Kabul, the nation’s capital, while then President Ashraf Ghani fled in a helicopter. The Afghan military had collapsed by then, leading to a nearly bloodless takeover of the government for the Taliban. The Taliban remains at press time the uncontested government of Afghanistan, though no country recognizes it as such in an official capacity.

The fall of Kabul was preceded by Biden announcing that he would break an agreement the United States, in its 20th year present in the Afghan war theater, with the Taliban to leave the country by May 1, 2021, in exchange for the Taliban not attacking Americans and cutting ties with terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda. Biden replaced the deal, brokered by predecessor Donald Trump, with an extension of the war into September 2021 that never happened, as the Taliban had disintegrated the official Afghan government by then.

The Taliban so swiftly dismantling the Afghan government resulted in a haphazard, and deadly, exit for American troops from the country that left the jihadists possessing billions of dollars of American equipment, some of it on display at the former Bagram air base on Wednesday.

The days before the celebrations, workers were busy putting up banners and billboards reading “Congratulations” with the anniversary date across Kabul.

“The Taliban’s armed forces towed Soviet-era tanks and artillery pieces through the former U.S. air base in Bagram, where Chinese and Iranian diplomats were also present,” the Turkish outlet Daily Sabah, citing international agencies, reported. “A swarm of motorbikes strapped with yellow jerry cans, often used to carry improvised explosive devices (IED) during the fight against international forces, also rumbled past assembled officials.”

The outlet also identified “U.S.-made armored personnel carriers” being driven in the parade. A report published in February 2023 by the office of the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that Biden left at least $80 billion worth of military equipment to the Taliban including 73 aircraft and nearly 100 vehicles, helping the Taliban to become an air power in the region. Military equipment featured in the parade reportedly included U.S. helicopters, Humvees, and tanks.

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The Biden Administration surrendered Bagram shortly before the fall of Kabul, replete with the supplies abandoned there and a population of jihadist inmates estimated to total about 5,000 men. One of those prisoners was later identified as the suicide bomber responsible for the massacre of 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. servicemembers at Kabul’s international airport on August 26, 2021.

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to the regime’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan as “the greatest embarrassment in U.S. history.”

“It’s a military defeat, it’s a psychological defeat,” Trump said in an telephone interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on August 26, 2021. The former president said the leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea were watching the debacle as it unfolded, and were laughing.

In an interview with CNN, Vice President Harris took credit for helping Biden make the decision to withdrawal. “Joe Biden just made a really big decision—Afghanistan—were you the last person in the room?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Harris at the time.

Harris responded: “Yes.” When asked if she felt “comfortable” with the decision, Harris said “I do.”

Remember, this is the result of what Kamala described as Biden’s “extraordinary courage.” She said she was “the last person in the room” when Biden decided to pull all U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Their horrendous withdrawal left behind $7 BILLION in military equipment,… https://t.co/oRXDPa8ity
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) August 14, 2024

Since the withdrawal, the country has been plagued by extreme poverty and government mistreatment of Afghan citizens, particularly women and girls.

According to the Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Taliban made the parade an international occasion by inviting unnamed “Chinese and Iranian diplomats.” While neither country officially recognizes the Taliban as a government entity, both maintain friendly ties to the Taliban. China became the first country to accept a Taliban ambassador to Beijing in December.

China’ state-run CGTN network covered the Taliban celebrations in Afghanistan favorably on Tuesday, publishing videos of parades, what appeared to be youth athletic fairs, and a paratrooper display.

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The Bagram parade featured a speech by Sirajuddin Haqqani, a New York Times–published terrorist who now serves as the “interior minister” of the Taliban government.

“My message to the international community is that there is no need for dismay over the fact that you took our independence, and we reclaimed it successfully,” Haqqani claimed. “We do not want to hold anyone accountable. We have created favorable circumstances and have good intentions for them to cooperate with us in rebuilding Afghanistan, similar to how they helped during the occupation.”

Official Taliban propaganda omitted the tone of reconciliation that Haqqani used in his address, openly celebrating “jihad” against America.

“To achieve this day, our mujahideen [holy warriors] and people underwent many hardships and difficulties and as a result of jihad, struggle, patience and perseverance,” an official Taliban statement published on social media by top spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid read. “The great aggressive forces of the time were defeated and our Jihadi struggle was victorious.”

“The twenty-year infidel occupation and the martyrdom and sacrifices of our people against it left a great lesson for our future generations that should never be forgotten,” the statement continued. “We commit to the Islamic system, which has been achieved through the great efforts of Afghans and in the shadow of which the ruling religion of Allah and Sharia [Islamic law] have been implemented.”

The Kabul Times, a Taliban propaganda newspaper, also honored the “mujahid nation and the heroes of Afghanistan” for killing Americans and NATO allies.

“During the 20 years that the country was occupied by the U.S. and NATO, the Mujahid nation and the heroes of Afghanistan did not sit aside for a moment as they started Jihad and resistance against the invaders,” the newspaper claimed.

The Kabul Times went on to bafflingly claim that the Taliban had “ended all ethnic, regional, racial, or religious discrimination in the country.”

Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund separately issued a statement telling Afghans that their “duty did not end with the victory in jihad.”

“We now have the responsibility to strengthen the regime, rebuild the country, protect the people’s property and honor, and compensate for the damages caused by previous wars,” he mandated. ✪

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