Years ago, Naqibullah had assisted the U.S. Marine Corps as a translator in Afghanistan and has since started a new life in the U.S. However, his parents and siblings remain in Afghanistan as the Taliban took over the country this weekend.
In audio recordings obtained by ABC News, Afghan Air Force pilots, translators and teachers, still trapped inside Afghanistan, pleaded for escape.
Naqibullah will be referred to only by his first name for this report. As of Wednesday, half a world away from his parents, brothers and sisters, he said he’s waiting for word from his family as they hide in their home. “I've talked to them a couple of hours ago… They had fears and concerns about what's going to happen next,” he told ABC News. “I have a fear that one day they're going to go into our house and search for … my family to be assassinated.”As the U.S. prepared to complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, bringing an end to the two-decade war, the Taliban seized power in a matter of days, taking over all of the country's major cities.
“I've been in touch with veterans that serve and everybody [is] just so nervous … the reaction is that we're deeply hurt, we're deeply upset about it. And the country's going towards [an] uncertain future,” Naqibullah told ABC News in a phone interview on Wednesday. “We don't know what's going to happen to those people who work for the government.
“How many people, how many years, [how many] heroes lost their lives there? What would be the answer to those hurt?” he said.Naqibullah was born and raised in Afghanistan and remembers living under Taliban rule in the 1990s.He said he remembers the Taliban going door-to-door targeting supporters of the government and imposing “a lot of restrictions” on the daily lives of the people -- from rules that women and girls must mostly be confined to the home, to dress codes for both men and women.
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