The Looting Of Bagram Air Base Was Far More Extensive Than What The Media Reported

An Afghan man is seen above on Monday resting in his shop as he sells secondhand items from the Bagram US air base after American troops left over the weekend  

Daily Mail: Afghan looters ransack Bagram Air Base and hawk basketballs, stereo speakers, laptops, and bicycle helmets after US troops bugged out in the dead of night 

* Afghan locals started hawking contraband after looters ransacked Bagram Air Base over the weekend 

* Bicycles, helmet, laptop computers, and pieces of scrap were sold after the looting over the weekend 

* Massive base includes 50-bed hospital and giant hangar size tents filled with supplies such as furniture 

* Americans also left a fleet of SUVs without the keys to start them as well as hundreds of armored vehicles 

* Since 2001, Bagram Air Base north of Kabul served as a linchpin for the US war in Afghanistan 

* At its peak in 2012, Bagram saw more than 100,000 U.S. and NATO troops pass through sprawling compound 

* Last week, US soldiers left the base as the 20-year-long war in Afghanistan comes to an end 

* The soldiers left without telling local officials, meaning its gates were left unsecured 

* On Friday morning, locals moved in under the cover of darkness and looted several buildings 

* US-backed Afghan forces gained control of the base, but it remains a shell of its former self 

* Photos taken on Friday show the base eerily quiet and almost abandoned 

* There are now fears it will be taken over by the Taliban who are gaining increasing control across Afghanistan 

Afghan locals started hawking basketballs, stereo speakers, laptop computers, bicycles and helmets, desk fans, guitars, and anything else they could get their hands on after looters ransacked a now-former American military base that was vacated by departing US soldiers in the dead of night Friday. 

The US left Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away without notifying the base's new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans' departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said. 

Afghanistan's army showed off the sprawling air base Monday, providing a rare first glimpse of what had been the epicenter of America's war to unseat the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks on America.  

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WNU Editor: Check out the stuff that was left behind by the departing U.S. soldiers in the above Daily Mail post. This was not a normal military departure from a base. This was a rush to the exits ASAP.

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