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We may now know exactly how these Taliban leaders were armed with U.S. military weapons and it's really, really bad

Many on Twitter are questioning how the Taliban leaders seen in the presidential palace after the fall of Kabul were armed with U.S. military weapons. For example:

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This may be the answer.

According to the Washington Post, the Taliban had been negotiating for months the surrender of Afghan military units in exchange for cash and military equipment:

From the Post:

The deals, initially offered early last year, were often described by Afghan officials as cease-fires, but Taliban leaders were in fact offering money in exchange for government forces to hand over their weapons, according to an Afghan officer and a U.S. official.

Over the next year and a half, the meetings advanced to the district level and then rapidly on to provincial capitals, culminating in a breathtaking series of negotiated surrenders by government forces, according to interviews with more than a dozen Afghan officers, police, special operations troops and other soldiers.

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These negotiations reportedly started after the Doha agreement in February 2020:

How did our intelligence people miss this one?!

No big deal, it’s just been going on for over a year. In secret. Or something:

https://twitter.com/dmarusic/status/1427202293343084545

 

“Everyone was just looking out for himself”:

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