PREVIEW: Al-Qaeda-Linked Taliban Use Bagram Air Base as Military Location GUEST: Bill Roggio SUMMARY: The al-Qaeda-linked Taliban use Bagram Air Base as a military base, maintaining the abandoned Afghan aircraft and helicopters, likely supported by the Pa
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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GUEST: Bill Roggio
SUMMARY: The al-Qaeda-linked Taliban use Bagram Air Base as a military base, maintaining the abandoned Afghan aircraft and helicopters, likely supported by the Pakistanis or the Chinese.
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| 0:25.3 | spoken of by the president in these last days, thinking of taking it back or wanting it back. |
| 0:31.7 | Bagram Airbase, what is it? What's there now? What about the Taliban? How do they use it? Here's Bill to describe briefly |
| 0:39.4 | and note that China makes an entrance. Bagram Air Base, now in the hands of the al-Qaeda-linked Taliban. |
| 0:49.4 | More of this later tonight. |
| 0:51.4 | Taliban, yeah, they man the base itself, but they have aircraft. |
| 0:56.0 | They, so Bogram, it's given its geographic location, it's about 30, 40 miles outside of |
| 1:02.4 | Kabul. |
| 1:02.9 | It's a good place. |
| 1:04.2 | It's where the U.S. should have conducted its, its evacuation from. |
| 1:07.8 | Instead, they insanely chose to Hame-carzai international airport in the heart of |
| 1:15.3 | Kabul yeah so the Taliban are using the base using it as a military base and they have an air force |
| 1:20.4 | they have the all of the Afghan helicopters and planes that were abandoned. The Taliban has maintained those, |
| 1:28.9 | my suspicion with the support of the Pakistanis or the Chinese. |
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