Hollywoodgate

3/13/2026

Now I appreciate the costs of repatriating hundreds of tons of equipment from Afghanistan to nearby ships or bases might be significant, but could those really have justified the leaving of some $7 billions in kit and medical supplies to an enemy that US and NATO forces had spent the last decade trying to eradicate? Well this documentary from Egyptian cameraman Ibrahim Nash’at takes us on a tour with the new Taliban rulers of this country as they explore the Aladdin’s caves of supplies abandoned by those allied forces. Just about everything from bottles of Scotch to cough drops fill an extensive array of warehouses and their new owners are carefully scrutinising their contents to ensure they are swiftly used amongst their population. What they might not have expected to inherit, though, ar