Mohammad Khalid Wardak escaped Wednesday after being in hiding in Kabul with his wife and four children. The family moved from place to place to evade capture and was unable to get inside the airport where the Taliban controlled the entrances.
In this photo provided to The Associated Press, Mohammad Khalid Wardak is seen in Afghanistan on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, after the U.S. military and its allies rescued him and his family. Wardak, a high-profile Afghan national police officer, was being hunted by the Taliban because of his years working with the American military. The U.S.
“I don’t think people understand the chaos that is reigning right now in the capital, the brutality and the efficient lethality the Taliban are using ... to ensure their rise to power as they eliminate their greatest threat, which are these military and special police," said U.S. Army Special Forces Sgt. Major Chris Green, who worked with Khalid in Afghanistan.
They finally reached a place on Wednesday where they could be whisked away by helicopter, said McCreary, adding that multiple allies, including the British, helped. McCreary said the family was “safe in an undisclosed location under the protection of the United States."The effort called Operation Promise Kept unfolded under the cover of darkness.
McCreary said Khalid originally sought protection only for his family while he kept fighting. Khalid and other fighters were completely surrounded by the Taliban last week and their location overrun, McCreary said., that’s when “we quickly changed gears to also work on getting him to safety.” Khalid came to the rescue in March 2013, when a special forces detachment in eastern Afghanistan’s Wardak Province suffered an insider attack. Someone dressed in an Afghan National Security Forces uniform opened fire, killing two Americans.
Along the way, he helped apprehend al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. He went on to serve as police chief in Ghazni Province and then Helmand Province, where he was wounded again last month in a mortar attack and continued to direct the resistance from his hospital bed.
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