Pressed on whether he would extend the August 31 deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan, Pres. Biden says, 'our hope is that we will not have to extend.' 'There are going to be discussions I suspect on how far along we are in the process.'
Current and former U.S. military special operations and intelligence community operatives areto get elite Afghan soldiers, intelligence assets and interpreters to safety as they've become increasingly disillusioned and fed up with the U.S. government-led evacuation effort in Kabul, ABC News has learned.
One informal group, dubbed"Task Force Pineapple," began as a frantic effort last weekend to get one former Afghan commando into Hamid Karzai International Airport as he was being hunted by Taliban who were texting him death threats.U.S. Marines assist with security at an Evacuation Control Checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 20, 2021.
Other former members of the military and CIA have consolidated their own efforts with a separate group calling itself"Task Force Dunkirk," a reference to the massive evacuation of British and other Allied forces from France in 1940 under threat of the Nazi juggernaut. "I spent the primacy of my career in special operations, and that gave me access to a lot of people who are like-minded, and a lot of people who have lived with the Afghan people and love the Afghan people and have been with them for 15, 20 years," retired Marine Lt. Col. Russell Worth Parker, a spokesman for the group, said in an exclusive interview with ABC News.Parker said that while there are civilian supporters assisting the group, the majority of members served in Afghanistan.
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