'It is this nation's duty to help those who helped us.' American friends of Mohammad Khalid Wardak, a high-profile Afghan national police officer, are pleading for U.S. officials to help him get out of Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover.
Then with stunning speed, the government collapsed. His president fled the country. And now Khalid, as he’s called by his friends, is in hiding and desperately hoping that American officials will repay his loyalty by helping him and his family escape almost certain death.
Those like Khalid who are top Taliban targets because of their work with U.S. forces deserve special consideration, said Robert McCreary, a former congressional chief of staff and White House official under President George W. Bush, who has worked with special forces in Afghanistan. When the outpost was almost simultaneously attacked from the outside, a U.S. commander called on Khalid, who within minutes raced into the valley with a quick-reaction force to defend his American partners.In 2015, when Khalid lost part of his right leg in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, friends in the U.S. military helped get him medical care and a prosthetic leg outside the country. A month later, he was again leading special police operations in Afghanistan alongside the U.S., Green said.
“Without a doubt, they know who he is,” added Green, who said Khalid and his family are “running from one location to another just to stay hidden.”For now, Khalid, his wife and their four sons, ages 3 to 12, are “literally hiding in a closet,” said Ryan Brummond, a special forces commander who worked with Khalid in 2013 to track down high-level insurgents.
“People in Khalid’s situation ... had no plans of leaving Afghanistan,” McCreary said. “They were staying there to fight to the end.”
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