Deh Sabz: After the longest war of America, the Taliban Commander Mullah Hasnain contemplated everything left of what was part of the last CIA base building destroyed, destroyed vehicles and pile of ammunition.
“We let them go peacefully, and see what they left behind,” said Hasnain, a leader of the Taliban Elite Badri Unit.
Hasnain, a thick bearded man wore a traditional chocolate robe with a vest and black turban, surveyed a spacious surrounded complex ruins at the edge of the Capital of Afghanistan Kabul.
“Before leaving, they destroyed everything,” he told reporters shown the site, flanked by the Taliban guard carrying the American M-16 rifle and equipped with the latest military kit.
This complex was once one of the safest sites in Afghanistan, located above Dusty Dusty near the former Eagle Camp base and close to Kabul Airport.
After two weeks of Afghanistan Blitz, the Taliban limited their extraordinary victory by sweeping to Kabul on August 15.
It took two more weeks before the last US troops flew out, ending their 20-year war in the country.
When the CIA destroyed their base, from where they trained Afghan intelligence agencies, the Taliban watched closely, said the commander.
“We were there for nine or 10 days,” said Hasnain 35 years, speaking clear English.
“There are many explosions.” “We didn’t stop them, even the last convoy went through the road to the airport.
We didn’t attack them, because we followed orders from our high-ranking officials.” Hasnain pointed to one crater he said had a “ammunition warehouse”.
Only pile of debris and bent metal remaining.
The US blew up the ammunition dump on August 27, with a large explosion echoing across Kabul and triggered terror.
The day before, the Islamic state-khorasan, the branch of the Jihadis franchise and Afghan rival from the Taliban, had attacked the crowd at the airport trying to escape.
They killed more than 100 Afghan civilians and 13 US troops.
Hasnain points to another area, where dozens of crates are packed with hundreds of rockets stacked.
“Please don’t move the grenade,” he told reporters.
A stack of ammunition that is not used lying in scattered.
“We can still shoot with them,” he said.
One building is left intact, a large game room with billiards, soccer table, arrow and soft velvet chair.
The sign is still hanging outside – “The Snooker Club”.
He looked at the parking lot, packed with a vehicle carcass burned from a vehicle.
“We need everything for the country, including weapons – we don’t have enough to ensure security,” he said.
“Now we have to buy it from another country,” he added, refused to determine which one.
The US said it was gone as a small military equipment maybe behind for the Taliban, who carried out a year-old bloody attack against foreign forces, Afghan forces and civilians.
At the nearest airport, US forces deactivated or destroyed a number of aircraft and armored vehicles, as well as a high-tech defense system used to stop rocket attacks.
Hasnain was angry at intentional destruction, seeing burning debris as a symbol of the two decades of America.
“The US comes to Afghanistan saying that they will rebuild the country,” he said.
“This is their real face, they don’t leave anything.” However, the Taliban took a large arms warehouse elsewhere, as well as from government soldiers who were previously supported by the US, including armored vehicle fleets.
Ankle-deep in the ash of the burned base, Hasnain offers a message of conciliation, echoing her Taliban tops.
“We don’t fight to kill Americans,” he said.
“We did it to free the country and restore sharia law.” But many in Afghanistan remember the 1996-2001 Harsh regime when the Taliban had previously ruled well.
With a hard line Islamist back on duty, they hold their assessment to see whether their promises of more moderate rules will come true.