A Translator Who Saved Biden But Was Still Stuck In Afghanistan
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- On Tuesday, the White House responded to an Afghan interpreter's request.
Who helped Senator Joe Biden and two other senators reaffirm the president's pledge to work diplomatically to evacuate other allies in Afghanistan in the 2008 blizzard who wanted to leave the country.
"We will get you out, we will honor your service, and we are determined to do just that," said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the translator, identified only as Mohammed by the newspaper, and his wife and four children were hiding from the Taliban after "decades of trying" to get out of Afghanistan in the bureaucracy. When the last troops left Afghanistan on Monday, Mohammed asked Biden to save his family.
"Hello, Mr. President, save my family and me," Mohammed told the Journal. "Don't forget I'm here."
United States President Joe Biden speaks in the White House State Dining Room on August 31, 2021, in Washington, DC, at the end of the war in Afghanistan. When he was 36, the paper reported, Mohammed rode with US troops in the blinding snow in search of two US Army Black Hawk helicopters, Biden - then a Senator from Delaware - and former Senator John Kerry, D-Mass, wearing. Dan Chuck. Hagel, R-Neb., had to make an emergency landing in a remote valley in Afghanistan.
Mohammed, stationed at Bagram Airfield, responded to the call for help and joined an Army Humvee and three Blackwater Jeeps searching for the helicopter. At the scene, according to the Journal, Mohammed was standing with Afghan soldiers to one side of the plane and fending off onlookers with a horn.
"First, our message to him is that you have shown gratitude for our part over the past 20 years," Psaki said at a press conference at the White House when he was asked to respond to Muhammad's request.
Psaki said the government's commitment "stands for not only Americans but also for our Afghan partners who are fighting alongside us."
Biden's government said it had evacuated more than 123,000 people from Afghanistan, including 5,500 Americans, before the military withdrew on Monday. In his speech on Tuesday, Biden said the United States helped produce "thousands of Afghan translators and interpreters and others who also support the United States."
Biden said his government would "make arrangements" to evacuate other Americans if they wished.
"As for Afghanistan, our partners and we have flown 100,000 of them by plane. No country in history has done more to bring people from other countries that we have created. We will continue to work on it, more To help people -people living in Afghanistan." Stake. We are far from finished.
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