A new inspector general report detailing the chaos in Afghanistan following the American troop withdrawal in 2021 says the Taliban is now using fingerprint and gun records to hunt down Afghans who worked with the U.S. government.
An ex-Afghan military intelligence officer said in the 148-page report that the Taliban are going after former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces "on a daily basis."
"They search their homes and if they cannot find the individual they will go after their family members," the officer said. "They punish their family until the person they are looking for surrenders. They will arrest someone at their home and beat them all the way to the police station."
The officer said in the report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction that "The Taliban fear these forces because they think these people might be against them one day or have connections to the opposition fighting the Taliban."
"The Taliban are using biometric devices to detect and find former ANDSF," he added. "They take fingerprints and if there is a match, they take the individual to the police station."
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