The Taliban has mobilized a special unit, called Al Isha, to hunt down Afghans who helped US and allied forces - and it's using US equipment and data to do it.
The existence of the Al Isha unit has not been previously confirmed by the Taliban; until now the Haqqani Network, a terror group aligned with the Taliban, has not admitted its role in targeting Afghans or its use of America's vast biometric database.
The US separately has provided the Taliban with a list of Americans and Afghans it wants to evacuate from the country, a move one defense official told Politico was "Just put[ing] all those Afghans on a kill list."
"The centerpiece of the program is the Afghan Automated Biometric Identification System, administered by about 50 Afghans at the Ministry of Interior in Kabul," according to a 2011 FBI news release.
The U.S. started with data from some 300,000 Afghans in 2009, mainly prisoners and Afghan soldiers according to NATO, and the biometrics center opened in November 2010.
At first, the US hoped to use the biometric database to spot Taliban infiltrators or catch the makers of roadside bombs, which had claimed the lives of hundreds of American and allied sources since 2001.
"The Afghan Taliban are incapable of handling the biometric equipment or the database" he said.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/taliban-kill-squad-hunting-afghans-with-americas-biometric-data/
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