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The Biden administration has begun scrubbing public records detailing the $82
The Biden administration has begun scrubbing public records detailing the $82.9 billion U.S.
investment in 's armed forces to protect Afghan officials and military officers from reprisals.
Federal agencies have been told to remove information detailing the colossal investment from website as Afghanistan's new rulers show off their newly acquired hardware.
Taliban fighters stood aboard captured Humvees and armored SUVs as they paraded through Kandahar, where propaganda video has circulated of a Black Hawk flying overhead.
In all, they are believed to have seized an air force worth tens of millions of dollars although U.S.
officials say aircraft were disabled before the departure of international troops.
The total amount of hardware supplied to Afghanistan is staggering. Between 2003 and 2016, the U.S. supplied 208 aircraft and almost 76,000 vehicles, along with 600,000 weapons, according to a 2017 report by the U.S.
Government Accountability Office.
But details of that weaponry is now disappearing under orders from the State Department.
'The safety of our Afghan contacts is of utmost importance to us,' said a spokesperson.
'The State Department advised other federal agencies to review their web properties for content that highlights cooperation/participation between an Afghan citizen and the USG or a USG partner and remove from public view if it poses a security risk.'
Taliban forces showed off their military hardware during a victory parade in Kandahar on Wednesday as they celebrated the retreat of U.S.
forces and their capture of Afghanistan
A Taliban fighter poses in the cockpit of a C-130 Hercules transport plane that was left behind during the evacuation
A US-made $6 million UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is seen flying over a convoy of Taliban fighters on its way to join the fight against the resistance in the Panjshir Valley on Wednesday
A string of federal reports have been removed from websites as officials scour them for any information that could threaten the safety of Afghan
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A single Black Hawk helicopter costs around $6 million, while a Hercules transport jet comes in at $14 million per unit.
Although many of the planes were flown away before the runways were seized, satellite imagery revealed that not all of them made it.
Analysis of satellite images commissioned by the revealed that six days after Kandahar airport was captured by the Taliban, there were five aircraft - at least two MI-17s choppers, two Black Hawks and Explore Oracle Software a third unidentified helicopter.
Around a month before the airbase was seized, there were 16 aircraft spotted - including nine Black Hawks, two MI-17s and five fixed-wing planes.
The aircraft were either flown to other runways in the country or shifted overseas.
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