{"id":446505,"date":"2021-04-23T16:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446505"},"modified":"2021-04-23T16:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:36:21","slug":"u-s-troops-packing-equipment-ahead-of-leaving-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-troops-packing-equipment-ahead-of-leaving-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. troops packing equipment ahead of leaving Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-troops-packing-equipment-ahead-of-leaving-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446505&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2402305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2402305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:45 PM PT \u2013 Friday, April 23, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>After nearly two decades, U.S. military forces are preparing to pack up and move out of Afghanistan. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Explore\/News\/Article\/Article\/2579584\/us-plans-to-keep-threats-in-check-even-after-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\">reports<\/a> on Thursday, the U.S. military has begun dissolving contracts with local suppliers of equipment and recycling scrap metal from its installations in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>All military equipment will be sent back to the U.S., but things like refrigerators, containers and other auxiliary hardware will be left behind. Contractors said some of the decommissioned U.S. equipment is being sold to local parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these scraps of equipment are brought to a compound from the airbase by the translator and from there, then everyone buys whatever they need,\u201d Kandahar scrap dealer Neyaz Mohammad said. \u201cAnd then they take them to Herat, Lashkar Gah City, Zabul, Ghazni and other places. You can find containers, refrigerators, chairs, tables and anything you would need, generators and some even some stuff in working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Afghani aides to the U.S. military have claimed they won\u2019t be safe after U.S. troops leave.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a top military official disagreed with Joe Biden\u2019s assessments of the upcoming withdrawal from Afghanistan. U.S. CENTCOM Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie said the U.S. military would have to respond to possible attacks by the Taliban despite the withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The general added, the Pentagon would require more money to actually pull out U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the Afghan military may collapse after U.S. troops leave.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I also asked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CENTCOM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CENTCOM<\/a> Commander Gen. McKenzie if there are plans in place to protect the U.S. embassy and personnel in Afghanistan if U.S. troops withdraw as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> has announced. I&#8217;m glad to hear this is a priority. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ock8XbeRo8\">pic.twitter.com\/ock8XbeRo8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Jim Inhofe (@JimInhofe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimInhofe\/status\/1385292872279371780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is a matter very much of great concern to me, and I think everyone, whether or not the future government of Afghanistan is going to be able to do that after we leave,\u201d General McKenzie said. \u201cThat\u2019ll be determined over the next few weeks as we begin our drawdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie went on to say, U.S. regional partners, such as Pakistan, have not been particularly helpful over the past 20 years as political tensions and Islamic terror continue to simmer.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/republican-senators-against-increasing-the-size-of-the-supreme-court\/\">Republican Senators Against Increasing The Size Of The Supreme Court<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 12:45 PM PT \u2013 Friday, April 23, 2021 After nearly two decades, U.S. military forces are preparing to pack up and move out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276582,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}