'You're our family. Please help,' the young women said to American service members.
A young Afghan woman pleaded outside of a barb-wire-covered fence, saying,"You're our family. Please help," as American soldiers looked on in a video shared by Voice of America Persian TV host Masih Alinejad.
While the young woman's identity and ties to the American military remain unknown, her desperation mirrors that of the thousands of Afghans who rushed the Kabul tarmac this Monday following theon Monday, Director for Defense Intelligence Garry Reid voiced the administration's intent to evacuate 22,000 Afghan asylum seekers awaiting the processing of their Special Immigrant Visa applications.
Roughly 80,000 Afghans qualify as SIV candidates, according to Reuters. However, current efforts to evacuate have focused on evacuating those in the country able to board military aircraft in Kabul. Law makers across the aisle, from Sen. Mitch. McConnell to Sens. Bob Menendez and Edward Markey , have criticized the Biden administration's approach to evacuation with many stating his team should have been directed to act sooner. Alinejad, who is of Iranian descent and has been critical about the treatment of women in that country, voiced her disapproval in a tweet accompanying the video.
"This young Afghan woman is begging an American soldier at the airport to save her," she wrote."This breaks my heart because I know that the American government gave them hope, but is now leaving them alone and hopeless. This is called betrayal."This young Afghan woman is begging an American soldier at the airport to save her. This breaks my heart because I know that the American government gave them hope, but is now leaving them alone and hopeless. This is called betrayal.
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