Posted on 08/27/2021 2:29:37 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A group of highly trained US military veterans has been secretly rescuing hundreds of allied operatives from Afghanistan — volunteering over fears those allies would otherwise be left for dead, according to a report.
The weeklong secret operation dubbed “Pineapple Express” has been carried out by a group of special ops veterans including retired Green Berets and SEAL Team commanders, they told ABC News.
They were driven by deep frustration “that our own government didn’t do this,” former Navy SEAL Jason Redman told ABC.
“We did what we should do, as Americans,” he said.
They initially formed to rescue an ex-Afghan commando who was getting death threats from the Taliban for having worked with US special forces and elite SEAL Team Six, ABC said.
After the Taliban’s target and his family of six were rescued, the task force continued rescuing Afghan allies — and has so far helped at least 630 get through the deadly ring of steel outside Kabul airport to safely evacuate.
They normally smuggled people into the airport in the middle of the night, either one person at a time or in pairs.
“That is an astounding number for an organization that was only assembled days before the start of operations and most of its members had never met each other in person,” former Green Beret Capt. Zac Lois told ABC.
The group dodged heavily militarized Taliban checkpoints to smuggle people through to the airport, using images of pineapples on their phones to show those being brought in that they were on their side.
The tropical fruit was also used as a final password — since changed — that was given to US military members at the airport who were working unofficially in tandem with the heroic veterans, ABC said.
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Thank you for posting!
Awesome story
Kudos to them.
The only good and honorable story I have heard in a year.
More details on this story:
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/us-special-operations-vets-carry-090023869.html
I wonder if there are US citizens that need to be rescued?
So the US MIL is rescuing "refugees" and this group is rescuing "allied operatives". Who's rescuing actual Americans still left their?
Wow! What an amazing story!
Another excerpt,
“ Dan O’Shea, a retired SEAL commander, helped a US citizen and his Afghan father escape on foot.
“He was not willing to let his father and his brother behind; even it meant he would die. He refused to leave his family,” he said.
“Leaving a man behind is not in our SEAL ethos. Many Afghans have a stronger vision of our democratic values than many Americans do.”
How we get in touch with these people?
The operation carried out Wednesday night was an element of "Task Force Pineapple," an informal group whose mission began as a frantic effort on Aug. 15 to get one former Afghan commando who had served with Mann into the Kabul airport as he was being hunted by the Taliban who were texting him death threats.
They knew he had worked with U.S. Special Forces and the elite SEAL Team Six for a dozen years, targeting Taliban leadership, and was, therefore, a high-value target for them, . . .
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/us-special-operations-vets-carry-090023869.html
Aloha
Its Blackrock
NO , there Afghan Muslims we do t need any more Muslim invaders !
We have 88,000 pf these Afghan unvetted Muslims .
No More .
Time for a remake of “Uncommon Valor”?
No one .
These are More stinkin Afghan. Muslims we don’t need .
Its Blackrock
not dome vets group .
Its Blackrock not a vet group .
What is Blackrock?
Blackwater .
Blackrock is another devious DC swamp group buying up all the real estate maybe for China .
Black water group nit the. evil real estate firm .
Black water not the Real estate firm .
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