“CHEATED”
Marina LeGree, from women’s rights group Ascend Athletics, is trying to evacuate a group of young Afghan women and their families.
“Nothing is moving,” she said. “We feel sold out.”
Eric Montalvo, a former US soldier and lawyer involved in the evacuation attempt from Mazar-i-Sharif, accused the United States of failing to deliver the paperwork needed for the Afghans to leave.
A frenzied two-week international airlift operation out of Kabul saw more than 123,000 foreign nationals and Afghans evacuated, before the last US soldier flew out ahead of an Aug 31 deadline to end their 20-year war.
Farid Ahmadi had been due to fly out on Aug 26, but hours before his flight, an Islamic State-Khorasan suicide bomber detonated outside the airport, killing scores of people.
In the middle of the night, Ahmadi got a call telling him to go to Mazar-i-Sharif instead.
He gathered his colleagues and their families, and together crowded onto a bus for a nine-hour ride.
Taliban soldiers stopped the bus several times on its slow journey.
“We told them we were going to a wedding,” Ahmadi said. “All the families were afraid. The children weren’t talking, they weren’t playing.”
Arriving in Mazar-i-Sharif, they laid low for three days.
Then, just hours before the last US soldiers left Afghanistan, Ahmadi’s group got the green light, and their plane took off.
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