Taliban Mocks Iconic WWII Photo of Marines Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

(08 21 2021) “The Taliban’s elite Badri 313 Battalion released a collection of propaganda footage this past week,” the Daily Mail reported Sunday. “Among the collection was the recreation of the famed 1945 World War II picture of soldiers raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima. ” In the image, the Taliban fighters are shown raising their flag while wearing what appears to be U.S. and U.S. ally-made military gear.

The use of memes has increased recently among the Taliban as they attempt to inflict insult to injury upon Biden’s failed evacuation of between 10,000 to 40,000 American citizens. Since the collapse, only 2,500 have been evacuated.

The U.S. gave Afghan forces an estimated $28 billion in weaponry between 2002 and 2017. But now, “everything that hasn’t been destroyed is the Taliban’s now,” a U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters. From 2003-2019, American taxpayer sent the following to Afghanistan: 75,898 vehicles 599,690 weapons, 162,643 pieces of communications equipment, 208 aircraft, 6,191 pieces of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment, 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 bombs, 1,394 grenade launchers.