According to a special operations veteran, if they do not have the knowledge and equipment to retrieve and process the data, they may well be supported in this task by ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service, which has close ties to the Taliban.Īround 2011, these HIIDE systems were massively exploited by the American army, when they sought to flush out the leaders of Al-Qaeda and in particular Oussama Ben Laden. They assume that the Taliban will be able to exploit this data without much difficulty. Revealed by The Intercept, this case worries the American military. While the Taliban’s ability to access the HIIDE data remains in question, military experts say a potential Taliban ally China, Pakistan, or Russia may be able to do so. And these data are important, since according to a book by investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen, the Pentagon’s objective was to collect biometric data from 80% of the Afghan population in order to locate terrorists and criminals and identify its Afghan collaborators. They fear that the Taliban may use the data. Top officers of the US military are worried. America’s senses have been blown away by the Taliban’s capture on this device. Scans d’iris, digital entrepreneurs, biographical data …, these elements are contained in centralized databases and they could allow the Taliban to identify the people who collaborated with the NATO forces and the former government. According to a report in The Intercept, the Taliban has captured the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE) device.
It turns out that these devices recorded a lot of data biometric from the Afghan populations. Among the equipment, there would be the biometric identification called HIIDE (Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment). If exploited, they could allow them to identify those who collaborated with the US military and supported the former government.įrom helicopters Black Hawks, light armored vehicles, astronomical quantities of assault rifles M16 or M4 … In Afghanistan, the weapons and military equipment entrusted to the Afghan army by the Americans are now in the hands of the Taliban. The biometric and personal data of thousands of Afghans are now in the hands of the Taliban.
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