'I don't want to be left behind, I don't want to be killed by the Taliban. I don't want them to kill my kids. Please, somebody, help me.' This is the desperate journey of one Afghan translator from the clutches of the Taliban to a new life in the US.
Updated 0247 GMT August 31, 2021
Abdul Rashid Shirzad was quiet and nervous on the taxi ride with his family to the Kabul airport, the last American-controlled enclave in the Afghan capital. "We hope to make it, and survive," Shirzad, 34, a former interpreter for United States Special Forces, said in a video filmed as they drove through Taliban checkpoints on August 20."It's too tough to live here. We live in fear every day." The hot air was filled with the blaring horns of cars and motorbikes, as thousands of people crammed around the airport's perimeter.
"Why the American soldiers forgotten about us? After everything we did, the sacrifices we made? Why are you leaving us behind?" he said in a tearful voice recording sent to CNN on August 18."They're going to cut our heads off if they find my location."I don't want to be left behind, I don't want to be killed by the Taliban. I don't want them to kill my kids. Please, somebody, help me." But it seemed he was on his own.
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