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  • US special operations forces race to save former Afghan comrades in jeopardy

    08/23/2021 3:08:19 AM PDT · by blueplum · 11 replies
    ABC News ^ | 22 Aug 2021 | James Gordon Meek and Matt Seyler
    The current and former military members are getting people out "one at a time." Current and former U.S. military special operations and intelligence community operatives are using their own networks of contacts to get elite Afghan soldiers, intelligence assets and interpreters to safety as they've become increasingly disillusioned and fed up with the U.S. government-led evacuation effort in Kabul, ABC News has learned. One informal group, dubbed "Task Force Pineapple," began as a frantic effort last weekend to get one former Afghan commando into Hamid Karzai International Airport as he was being hunted by Taliban who were texting him death...