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US Citizens being Rescued

Retired Special Forces are rescuing US and Afghans that were left behind in Afghanistan

In August, the United States pulled their Forces out of Afghanistan after they went through the largest airlift in their history. Where thousands of people were evacuated, President Biden had left a number of Americans behind.

After the US pull out, the efforts of rescuing Americans isn't over as Afghans are facing arrests, abductions and executions by the Taliban.

A former Force Recon Marine and Afghanistan veteran, Chad Robichaux, is working hard to rescue all those who were left behind.

He said, "I believe the level of desperation is even worse now without the US troops there, without any exit. People are hiding and on the run. The Taliban is actually going door to door doing executions. We have videos where they're going and grabbing people, stuffing them in trunks of cars and driving them off to execution sites. I can imagine that the ground panic there is even worse than it was during those evacuation days."

Just after the US announced its pullout, Robichaux decided to join other retired special forces soldiers to assemble their group called "Save Our Allies." He said they have gone in and rescued more than 12,000 US citizens and Afghan allies throughout the chaotic weeks before the US military's pull out. "The good news is that we're still being successful in evacuations, not in the big numbers that we were. We're still getting 100-200 people out per day."

The rescue operation that is going on in Afghanistan is nothing new to Dave Eubank of the Free Burma Rangers.

He said, "We're trying to help people get out any way we can. And I'm really grateful to the Tajik government that right now has a very humanitarian look of how can we help people."

The White House and State Department is saying that there were only 100 US citizens left behind, but Chad says that it just doesn't add up. He said, "The truth is, it's not a few hundred. I would say it's a few thousand. My guess is at least 5,000. And people were saying that's overestimating, but if you go back and listen to the

Senate hearing, those numbers are about what the

Senate hearing had concluded, over 5,000."

It doesn't matter what the real number is; what matters is that the US citizens and the Afghan Christians and those who want to get out are in danger.

Dave Eubank said, "The Taliban are hunting down people right now, trying to get all the names of anyone they perceive as an enemy."

Chad Robichaux said, "A lot of them are hiding from the Taliban; they're scared. They don't know what to do. And they feel abandoned by our country that has a responsibility to help them."

One thing that he fears is that President Biden and the media are starting to move on from the news in Afghanistan.