A Taliban special unit called Al Isha is reportedly using American-made biometric equipment and data left behind in Afghanistan to hunt down Afghans who assisted U.S. and coalition forces.
Nawazuddin Haqqani, a brigade commander over Al Isha, reportedly said in an interview with Zenger News that the special unit is using hand-held biometric scanners taken from the U.S. military and a U.S. biometric database to identify anyone who worked with NATO or Indian intelligence.
Zenger SCOOP: Taliban has a US-built biometric database & 7,000 hand-held scanners that the US provided to Afghans, & is using them to hunt American & Afghan enemies & even journalists https://t.
U.S. military biometric devices known as Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment were also taken by the Taliban as the Islamist militant group advanced across Afghanistan and captured Kabul earlier this month, current and former U.S. military officials told The Intercept last week.
The equipment now reportedly being used by the Taliban contain biometric data such as iris scans and fingerprints, along with biographical information, and are stored in large databases.
The Department of Defense had initially planned to gather biometric data on roughly 80% of the Afghan population in order to locate terrorists and criminals, investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen told NPR in a January interview.
It's unclear how much of the U.S. military's biometric database on the Afghan population has been taken by the Taliban or whether the militant group has additional technology to help process the data.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/27/taliban-al-isha-afghanistan-biometric-data-us-military/
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