Mike, a former interpreter for the US Special Forces, who asked to be identified only by his surname, said that everyone in his village knows he served for the US military.
“Of course we are disappointed that we are left behind,” he said. “We have sacrificed a lot. We wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what is going to happen to our lives and our children.”
student at the American University of Afghanistan, another target of one of the largest US civilian projects in the country A deadly Taliban attack in 2016, also lagged behind. About 600 hundred students and relatives had boarded the buses for the airport, but in the end they were not allowed inside the airport gate.
After entering Kabul on August 15, Taliban fighters posted a picture of themselves on social media standing at the entrance of a university building with an ominous message that this was the place where the US established a place for Muslims. was established. The infidels had trained “wolves” to corrupt the mind.
Muhammad, a 31-year-old father of three and part-time government employee, who had three more courses left to finish his degree in business administration, was devastated. “It’s like you throw a glass on a cement floor and your life is shattered in an instant,” he said.
UN officials have warned that the situation in Kabul and across the country will soon worsen. The UN humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan, Ramiz Alkabarov, said the food stock would run out at the end of September.