AFGHANISTAN LATEST: — Pentagon responds to distressing scenes outside airport in Kabul — Top Pentagon officials to brief reporters as evacuations continue — One Afghan family's harrowing account of getting to Kabul's airport
"Khan," a computer scientist who worked with a U.S. contractor on the mission in Afghanistan and whose name is being withheld to protect his identity, boarded a U.S. military aircraft on Wednesday with his 3-year-old son and wife, who is 35 weeks pregnant, according to his lawyer.
The north gate was mobbed, with U.S. troops firing warning shots into the air or deploying tear gas to disperse the crowds, according to his lawyer, who was on FaceTime with him.
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