[New Tang Dynasty Beijing time August 24, 2021]The Afghan evacuation work is underway. Current and former US special operations and intelligence personnel are using their own network of contacts to bring the elite former Afghan soldiers, intelligence assets and translators as soon as possible. Take it to safety.
According to a report by the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Sunday (22nd), an unofficial group called the Task Force Pineapple launched a huge effort last weekend to successfully bring a former Taliban hunted down. The Afghan commandos were sent into Kabul International Airport.
Former Afghan fighters have worked with the US Special Forces and SEAL Team 6 for more than ten years. The goal is to target the leadership of the Taliban, so they face a high risk of retaliation.
Two months ago, the Afghan team member told the ABC that while waiting for the U.S. special immigrant visa to be approved, he almost escaped from a small outpost in northern Afghanistan, but was later captured there.
Last week, an ad hoc group of congressional staff enlisted the help of a U.S. embassy official at Kabul Airport. The identity of the former Afghan commando was confirmed. He was caught in a group of civilians outside the airport and said he saw two civilians killed.
“Two people died one foot away by my side,” he told ABC outside the airport that night that it took him several hours to reach the entrance guarded by the US military not far away.
Taliban militants mixed into the crowd of thousands. They used AK-47 rifles to shoot above the crowd. The former elite commando finally entered the US security zone, where he shouted “pineapple” to the US military at the checkpoint. code word. (Later this code word was modified).
Two days later, with the help of the same U.S. Embassy official, his American friends and comrades in arms also helped his family enter the airport to meet him.
“I am very excited. I feel that one side of the wire is Afghanistan, and the other is the United States. I told my family that we are now on American territory.” After his young child went to sleep in the heavily guarded airport, this A former Afghan commando told ABC.
The spokesperson of Task Force Pineapple and retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Russell Worth Parker said in an exclusive interview with ABC: “My professional life is mainly spent in special operations. I have the opportunity to contact There are many like-minded people who live with the Afghan people, love the Afghan people, and have been with them for 15 to 20 years. We cannot stand by and watch.”
Parker said that the Task Force Dunkirk, joined by other former military and CIA members, and the group he now unites, have helped at least 83 Afghans at risk to leave.
After the “Task Force Pineapple” brought the Afghan commando and his family into the safe zone of the US military, it hopes to keep more people out of danger. It is now cooperating with Task Force Dunkirk to carry out this Work.
(Reporter Li Zhaoxi compiled and reported/responsible editor: Zhang Jie)
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