pullout, Kabul is a city in despairĪ year of Taliban rule sees Afghanistan’s economy in ruins and hope and security for Kabul’s residents in short supply.Įfforts to evacuate Ahmadi’s family and colleagues have been bedeviled by the Taliban’s still-developing rules but also by bad luck. World & Nation ‘I want to leave more than ever’: A year after U.S. “Even if I spoke day and night, I can’t explain all the pain,” she continued. “I don’t have my father, my brothers, my fiance. “When I close my eyes, I can still feel that moment,” said the other daughter, Samia, her voice roughening as her eyes filled with tears. “When I came out, there were pieces of flesh everywhere.”
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I woke up and saw the windows were broken and I thought all of Kabul was burning,” recounted one of the daughters, Zamira. When the children heard his 1996 Toyota Corolla approach, they did what had become a family ritual: Run out to the street to greet him and help guide the car into the driveway. That evening, just before he reached home, two of his older daughters were playing in a room with some of their younger siblings and cousins. 29, 2021, remain vivid for many of the survivors of the drone attack that killed Ahmadi and much of his family. “Many times the Americans committed to helping the Afghan people and they just left us to these terrorists,” he said. In the meantime, he applied for the priority and special immigrant visas and tried to evacuate to other countries, with no success. He has no job and lives on dwindling savings. Now he moves every few months and uses a basic cellphone that can’t store any incriminating photos or links to his social media accounts. An Afghan family says several of their members were hit. The Pentagon says would-be suicide bombers were targeted in a drone strike. World & Nation A deadly blast, as recounted by an Afghan family and the U.S. his father worked with the U.S.-backed government as part of a council of clerics issuing religious edicts discouraging people from working with the Taliban and three of his brothers were officers in the army or national police, including one who was killed in the Aug. He was employed by two nonprofits contracted by the U.S. Jamil, a 29-year-old who gave only his second name because he feared for his safety, presumably would be one of the Afghans eligible for resettlement. “They’ve done it for Ukrainians who had their application fees waived, the background investigations that are supposed to be done to them waived.” “I now know what can be done for people who are in a war zone,” he said. He said his anger was compounded by the contrast with Ukrainian resettlement programs, which had accepted more than 100,000 people since the war started in February. “At this rate, it will take over 18 years to successfully get our Afghan allies out, almost as long as the war in Afghanistan,” Zeller said. officials called the errant drone strike that killed 10 in Afghanistan a ‘tragic mistake.’ The family is still waiting for it to be rectified. drone strike killed 10 members of their family.
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