From Sputnik News
KABUL (Sputnik) - The Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism) said on
Sunday it was about to form a regular standing army of 100,000 fighters, months
after taking power in Afghanistan.
Enayatullah Khwarazmi, a spokesman for the
Taliban-run defenсe ministry, said the ranks of the new Afghan army had been
filled by 80%. A 20-men committee is doing the vetting.
Qari Fasihuddin, the Taliban's chief of staff of
the armed forces, told al-Jazeera in November that the insurgency planned to
recruit 150,000 fighters to join their ranks.
The Islamist militancy has also been seeking to
woo officials who served under the ousted administration over to the
Taliban-controlled ministry. They said many staffers had returned to work.
The Taliban have to have somebody to run all
that equipment left behind for the “old” Afghan army. Who better than
American-trained technicians and mechanics?
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