' was used as a biometric ID tool to help ID locals working for the coalition.' U.S. military contractor told The Intercept: 'We processed thousands of locals a day - had to ID, sweep for suicide vests, weapons, intel gathering, etc. 'It's unknown because these statistics are jealously guarded by the Defense Department and they're not available from the government of Afghanistan.'Ī U.S. 'Approximately 25 million people was the goal. 'The original goal by the Defense Department was to capture biometrics on 80 per cent of the population of Afghanistan,' she said. 'The Taliban doesn't have the gear to use the data but the ISI do,' the veteran said.Īnnie Jacobson, who wrote a book about the gathering of data by the Pentagon, told NPR in January that the Pentagon wanted to catalogue millions of people - but it was unclear whether they managed to do so. The ISI is known to work with the Taliban. Taliban fighters stand guard outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Tuesday A soldier stands guard on the perimeter of Kabul airport on TuesdayĪn Army Special Operations veteran told the site that the Taliban may well not be able to operate the devices.īut, he said, the Pakistani intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), would have the skills to access the data. They reported that it is not known how many Afghans are on the database, or whether the Taliban has been able to access the information. HIIDE devices contain identifying biometric data such as iris scans and fingerprints, as well as biographical information, and are used to access large centralized databases. military personnel that the Taliban obtained the devices, which are known as HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment. The website was told by a Joint Special Operations Command official and three former U.S. He said Biden would have 'blood on his hands' if the Taliban began hunting down people listed on the database.īanks revelations were also reported by The Intercept, which detailed the workings of the biometric devices. 'This administration still has no plan to get this equipment or these supplies back.' 'The Taliban now has biometric devices which have the fingerprints, eye scans and the biographical information of the Afghans who helped us over the last 20 years,' Banks said. Biden says United States believes the Taliban will HELP evacuate any citizens or Afghan allies left behind after August 31 withdrawal date.'We're going to have to go back in': Obama's Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says US forces will have to RETURN to Afghanistan to tackle terror threats posed by Taliban and ISIS-K.
Jim Banks, who represents Indiana in the House, attacked Joe Biden on Tuesday for the fact that a significant amount of weaponry was left in Afghanistan after the U.S. The Taliban have obtained the biometric data of thousands of Afghans who helped the United States, according to a Republican congressman, who said Joe Biden will have blood on his hands if the data is used to hunt down Afghan allies. equipment which had been donated to the Afghan army Banks also expressed dismay at scenes of the Taliban using U.S.
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