The translator said he had tried to get his family to Kabul airport to make his escape, 'but everybody is shooting at us.'
The translator, identified only as Abdul, spoke to
's Kate Bolduan by phone on Thursday. He had worked as a translator for U.S. special forces for five years and now fears for his family's life.Before speaking to Abdul, Bolduan played a recording he had submitted to a human rights attorney where he asked:"Why are the American soldiers forgetting about us after everything we did, the sacrifices we made? Why are they leaving us behind?""I don't want to be killed by the Taliban.
Abdul said he been threatened and described going to a store to get supplies and being followed by two or three members of the Taliban. He escaped that encounter but stressed the need to get out of the country. "I don't know how much more I should handle this," he told Bolduan."I have a wife and two young kids. We will all be killed if the Taliban find us."
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