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  • Exclusive: 'They'll kill us' - Afghan pilots at Uzbek camp fear deadly homecoming

    09/04/2021 4:39:36 AM PDT · by blueplum · 28 replies
    Reuters ^ | 03 September 2021 | Phil Stewart
    Sept 3 (Reuters) - The U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and others held at a camp in Uzbekistan already feared being sent back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. So it was little comfort when an Uzbek guard unsympathetically quipped the other day: "You can't stay here forever." The offhand warning added to an already grinding sense of unease at the camp just across Afghanistan's northern border, recounted one of the Afghan pilots who fled there with aircraft when ground forces fell to the Taliban in August as the United states and its allies withdrew their forces. What follows is the first, detailed inside account...
  • Big Mexican Women Help AWOL Afghan Pilots Escape Lackland AFB

    07/21/2010 4:03:23 PM PDT · by maggiesnotebook · 14 replies
    Maggie's Notebook ^ | July 20, 2010 | Maggie M. Thornton
    The 17 reported AWOL Afghan pilots at Lackland AFB's English Language Institute has now ballooned to 46. A network known as "Big Mexican Women," or BMW's are believed to have helped the men escape to Canada or taught them how to live under-the-radar in the U.S. One Big Mexican Woman is in custody. The odd thing is, there is little reporting on this story, with the exception of Fox New.