The Afghan national who was an interpreter for and helped President Joe Biden get out of Afghanistan back in 2008 has gotten out of the country and reached safety in the U.S. a staggering five months after the disastrous American military pullout.
Mohammad Aman Khalili, the interpreter in question, was interviewed this past Monday on “Fox & Friends First” alongside Briand Genthe, one of the U.S. military veterans who assisted in his escape from the occupied country.
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“It was a long trip as a start from the north of Afghanistan, right to the border of Pakistan,” stated Khalili.
“It took me a long, long time. It was very scary on the roads because it was new power, a new changing situation in Afghanistan. The Taliban were on the roads, and they were checking and watching, as everybody is to find out their opponent and arrest them,” he continued.
Former interpreter Mohammad Aman Khalili, who helped Joe Biden escape Afghanistan, and Brian Genthe, a Purple Heart veteran who helped secure his departure, joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss how he was able to flee the Taliban-controlled nation. https://t.co/mYAiuFAeAK
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Khalili was a member of the group that assisted in the rescue of the then-Sen. Biden and many other senators in the wake of the group’s Black Hawk chopped being forced to the ground as a result of extremely bad weather in 2008.
Khalili, alongside his wife and kids, were officially rescued by U.S. military aircraft after reaching Islamabad, Pakistan, marking the end of a multi-month-long trek, reported the Founder of the Human First Coalition, Safi Rauf, back in October, as reported by the Military Times.
“The Human First Coalition, according to Rauf, moved Khalili and his family from Mazar-E-Sharif to Kabul and then to Helmand province. From there, the Khalili and his family were able to slip across the Pakistani border and on to Islamabad, where a U.S. military fight emanating from Qatar waited,” continued the report.
The interpreter issued a message to Old Uncle Joe via The Wall Street Journal back on the 31st of August from the soon-to-be Taliban-controlled country on the final day of America’s military presence in the nation.
“Hello Mr. President: Save me and my family,” he stated. “Don’t forget me here.”
Mohammad Aman Khalili, Afghan interpreter who helped @POTUS @JoeBiden, @JohnKerry & Hagel in 2008, successfully exited Afghanistan along with his wife & children after weeks in hiding after being abandoned by Biden.
— Joe (@9Joe9) October 11, 2021
The interview is a call back to the insane chaos that took place in Afghanistan in August of 2021 as the Taliban took power and the U.S. sought to help remove all Americans and Afghan refugees. The U.S. also ended up losing 13 service members as a consequence of the evacuations taking place in the Kabul airport from a suicide bomber.
As reported by The Daily Wire:
The 13 troops were murdered by a terrorist who was freed from Bagram prison after U.S. forces abandoned the area amidst Biden’s orders to pull out of the country.
“Senior Indian intelligence sources familiar with the case have told Firstpost that he was handed over to the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency by the Research and Analysis Wing in September 2017,” Firstpost reported. “However, the jihadist walked free on 15 August along with thousands of other dangerous terrorists held in the high-security prison, taking advantage of the chaos that ensued in the aftermath of the United State’s hurried exit and the Taliban’s swift takeover of the entire country.”
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said in an interview late last week that the U.S. had lost virtually all of its capability to track Islamic terrorists in al-Qaeda and other organizations inside Afghanistan after Biden’s pullout from the country.