He’s not an embassy official!
He’s a local national was an embassy worker.
Posted on 06/15/2022 11:12:47 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
When Arash* e-mailed me recently that he had escaped Afghanistan, I assumed he finally got a U.S. visa to get to safety. I was wrong. He took his family and newborn baby to Pakistan to escape the Taliban that has been hunting him for his work at the U.S. Embassy.
Arash had to leave Afghanistan, but now he is stuck waiting for the American government to rescue him from the squalor of a Pakistan refugee camp. He sent me the photos of their housing that you see in this story.
Arash escaped Afghanistan by road on the Torkham Border by “giving money to the agent that hides us from Taliban members through the way.”
I asked how did he know it was a safe way to take his young family.
“I take this risk by trusting the agent who had helped my friend, but it was very dangerous. Everywhere we hit checkpoints, and they let us through after we give money to the agent,” he said.
I asked about his young children. “They’re sick here in Pakistan, and I don’t have the money now to take them to the doctors because I don’t have a job. The house I live in the camp is a dirty environment and not safe for their health.”
Arash was a financial analyst in USAID’s Office of Economic Growth and Trade in Afghanistan, which made him a specific target of the Taliban. He was captured by a Taliban member in 2019 and beaten. That Taiban was imprisoned at Bagram but released after the U.S. withdrew.
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Totaling misleading headline! Misleading to the point of being a deliberate lie!
He’s not an embassy official!
He’s a local national was an embassy worker.
“Let’s Go Brandon and Milley sold him out to the Taliban while donating $83 billion (conservative estimate) of weapone, vehicles, aircraft and equipment to the Taliban.
Tell me again, who is the enemy of “democracy,” women, children and world peace?
He’s not an embassy official!
He’s a local national was an embassy worker.
Regards,
Liberals throw our own soldiers away. They have no concept of loyalty, being nothing but a pack of criminal hyenas.
he worked in the embassy as an FSN, he’s not an Embassy official. He’s a local dude.
“Totaling misleading headline!”
Regardless, it’s dicey to go to a faraway, unfriendly, uncivilized place and expect to be bailed out by your home nation.
That will teach him to be a Republican!
There are hundreds more like him still in Afghanistan. He at least got out. He’s not special, even if he probably did act that way when he had that relatively high paying job as an FSN. Lesson learned, buddy. No one you worked for in AID is going to do anything for you.
His home nation is Afghanistan! I doubt they view him with any high regard. We were his employer.
My younger cousin might, if he knew him. He was a USAID officer in the Kabul embassy for ten years, 2002 - 2012.
As an aside, he has to keep his Christian, Conservative views quiet while he works in the State Department.
That ship pretty much sailed when Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly wrapped up the in-processing of the ones who managed to get on a plane. AID people don’t have a lot of pull within State. There are more like this guy who worked for and have friends in State and those friends can’t do much of anything for them now.
“No one you worked for in AID is going to do anything for you.”
AID is CIA.
“AID is CIA.”
Not a chance but you’re not entirely off.
USAID is a well known CIA front/infestation going back decades.
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