Afghan interpreter helping rescue Joe Biden From a remote valley in 2008, he said he felt betrayed by the US and on Thursday called on the president not to forget him and his family because he feared retaliation. Taliban.
‘Do you feel cheated?’ Fox and Friend First co-host Jillian Mele asked the interpreter, who only goes by his first name, Mohamed — for security reasons.
‘Yeah, yeah, they get out of their army’ Afghanistan,’ Mohammad said in a phone interview. ‘They left me and my family and others were left behind like me. But it’s so scary, man, because we’re at a lot of risk.’
Mohamed, hiding from the Taliban with his wife and four children, said they would kill him if the Taliban found him. as of tuesday Wall Street Journal reportMohammad had been trying to get out of Afghanistan for years.
When asked on Thursday what message he had for Biden, Mohamed said: ‘Hello, President, don’t give up – don’t forget me and my family.’
“At this time there is a very difficult and frightening situation in Afghanistan. ‘There is no way to go from here to another area. But I am also thinking about how I am going to leave my house and go somewhere else.’
Mohamed asked the Fox News host to relay President Biden, “Just give him my hello and tell him, if possible, tell him or send a message, don’t let me and my family hold back.”
Mohammad, the Afghan interpreter who helped save Joe Biden in 2008, is requesting the president to help him get out of Afghanistan, claiming he has been betrayed by the US
Then-senators Joe Biden, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel are rescued in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan on February 20, 2008.
Last US military planes and service members left Afghanistan on Monday afternoon, leaving behind at least 100 Americans and several Afghan allies and interpreters. Biden hailed the end of the two-decade-long war in remarks on Tuesday, where he called the withdrawal and evacuation efforts an “extraordinary success.”
Mohammed was one of many left behind.
‘Is your life in danger now? What will happen to you and your family if the Taliban find you?’ Mele asked Mohammad.
‘If they find me, they will kill me. It is very easy,’ he replied.
Mohammad further said, ‘I am hiding in my house. ‘I did not look outside – what is happening outside.’
‘How long can you hide?’ The host asked him, saying that his face was in a picture with Biden.
‘There’s no way man. Depends, maybe die at home, there’s no way,’ he said.
Mohamed is one of hundreds – perhaps thousands – of American allies and interpreters who helped US forces and efforts in Afghanistan during the 20-year war, Biden announced in Tuesday’s remarks.
Senator Tom Cotton led 25 of his Republican allies in a letter seeking information on the humanitarian crisis caused by the president’s handling of Afghanistan’s withdrawal.
Specifically, the group wants Biden to inform Congress “in an unclassified manner about the safety and well-being of our fellow countrymen and allies you have left behind.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki vowed that the US would expel him from Afghanistan.
When asked during Tuesday’s press conference, Saki thanked Mohammed for his service, but did not specify how that service would be paid for.
‘Our message to them is: Thank you for fighting by our side for the past 20 years. Thank you for the role you played, and helping many of my favorite people out of Blizzard, and thank you for all the work you have done.
‘And our commitment is enduring, not only to American citizens but to our partners who have fought on our behalf.’
Psaki echoed statements from other Biden officials that the evacuation of US citizens and allies from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is not ending, but is moving into a ‘diplomatic phase’.
“We will take you out, we will respect your service, and we are committed to doing exactly that,” she said.
The press secretary did not elaborate on how the Biden administration wanted it to be viewed.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki promised the US would find an Afghan interpreter who saved Joe Biden but did not indicate plans to do so.
Mohamed, while working for the US military, was a key role in a story—often repeated and embellished by Biden during the run for vice president in 2008.
As a US senator, Biden was aboard one of two Blackhawk helicopters that made an emergency landing in an indiscriminate blizzard with then-senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.
Mohammad is one of the thousands of SIV applicants who are left behind. There were 88,000 SIV applicants and only 6,000 had applied till last week.
A private security team with soldiers from the former firm Blackwater and US Army stood in for Taliban fighters as the crew called for help to Bagram Air Base, where Mohammed jumped into Hamavi with a force from the 82nd Airborne Division and Walked for hours in the mountains. Redeem them.
The three senators were escorted back to base with the convoy.
‘Hello President: Save me and my family,’ Mohamed told the Journal. ‘Don’t forget me here.’
He said on Tuesday, ‘I can’t leave my house. ‘I’m very scared.’
Kerry, left, is seen with Biden during a visit to the governor’s office in Asad Abad, the provincial capital of Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, February 21, 2008.
Taliban Badri 313 units stationed at Kabul airport for cameras today, carrying American-made rifles and wearing American military gear
Mohammed’s visa application was reportedly stalled when the defense contractor worked to make up for the lost records needed for his visa application. As the Taliban regained control on 15 August, Mohammad tried his luck at the gates of Kabul airport, but was turned away by US forces. They told him that he could go but he would have to leave his wife and children.
American soldiers say Mohammed was with them for more than 100 firefights.
The area of defense was not under Taliban control, but just a day before three then-senators went down by helicopters, the Taliban had killed nearly two dozen Taliban insurgents just 10 miles away.
After defending the senators, Kerry joked, “We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with Snowball, but we didn’t have to.
The trip was one of several that Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took overseas, along with Kerry and Hegel, who became secretaries of state and defense respectively under President Obama.
In a speech on the 2008 campaign, Biden said: ‘If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where (Usma) bin Laden is, come back with me to Afghanistan. Come back to the area where my helicopter was shot down at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains with a three-star general and three senators. I can tell you where they are.’
‘It’s in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ he said, ‘where my helicopter was shot down recently.’
Army veterans have come forward to plead for help on behalf of Mohammad. ‘If you can only help one Afghan, choose’ [Mohammed],’ wrote Sean O’Brien, an Army combat veteran who worked with him in Afghanistan in 2008. ‘He earned it.’
The US has evacuated more than 120,000 people, including 5,500 Americans, from the Taliban regime since August 14, but left behind somewhere between 100 and 200 Americans and thousands of Afghan interpreters who acted hastily with US forces.
The State Department has promised to use all diplomatic channels to continue the evacuation without the presence of any troops or embassies.
A White House official declined to comment on Mohamed’s case for privacy reasons.
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