Thirteen years ago, Afghan performer Mohammed helped rescue the then Sen. Joe Biden and two other senators were trapped in a remote Afghanistan valley after their helicopter was forced to land in a snowstorm. Now, Mohammed is asking President Biden to save him.
“Hello Mr. President: Save me and my family,” Mohammed, who asked not to use his full name while in hiding, told The Wall Street Journal as the last Americans left Kabul on Monday. “Don’t forget me from here.”
Mohammed, his wife and four children are hiding from the Taliban after their long attempt to leave Afghanistan became entangled in bureaucracy. They are among countless Afghan allies who were left behind when the United States ended its 20-year military campaign in Afghanistan on Monday.
Mohammed was a 36-year-old U.S. Army interpreter in 2008, when two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters landed in an emergency in Afghanistan during a blinding snowstorm, according to U.S. veterans. ‘army that worked with him at that time. On board were three U.S. senators: Mr. Biden, Delaware Democrat John Kerry, (D., Mass.) And Chuck Hagel, (R., Neb.).
As a private security team from the former Blackwater firm and U.S. Army soldiers monitored nearby Taliban fighters, the crew sent an urgent call for help. At Bagram Airfield, Mohammed jumped into a Humvee with a rapid reaction force from the Arizona National Guard working with the 82nd Airborne Division and drove for hours into the nearby mountains to rescue them, Brian Genthe said. who then served as a staff sergeant in Arizona. National guard who led Muhammad on the rescue mission.