US veterans mobilize to rescue Afghan interpreters from the Taliban.
nonprofit was already planning the escapes of thousands of Afghan interpreters.
Marines guide evacuees aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 21, 2021.So using Zoom and Facebook messenger, they had the Afghans rendezvous at the meeting spot in Kabul and then head together to the airport, he said. A dozen people showed up — the interpreters and their wives and children.
At one point, the retired Marine said, he had one of the Afghans show his cellphone to one of the Marines guarding the gates so he could plead directly with the guard. “We’re Marines and we’re so used to toughing it out, but the Afghans were breaking down,” he said. “You need to do this, we were telling them, otherwise you’re going to die.”
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