Sunday, November 29, 2020

Afghan pilot who saved Americans hiding from Taliban after US denies plea for refuge


https://news.yahoo.com/afghan-pilot-saved-americans-hiding-011537165.html

 

The Independent
Josh Marcus
Sat, November 28, 2020, 8:15 PM EST

A decorated Afghan Air Force pilot who had saved American lives is now in hiding in Afghanistan from the Taliban after the US military suddenly changed course and denied his emergency request to seek refuge in America late last month.

“I cannot go backward,” Maj. Mohammed Naiem Asadi, 32, told military news site Stars and Stripes, which broke the news. “And I cannot go forward, because I am not allowed to go forward.”

Stars and Stripes accessed documents which showed the Pentagon initially approved the request from Mr Asadi, who reportedly killed more Taliban fighters than anyone else in the Afghan Air Force and helped protect an American pilot who crashed their plane in northern Afghanistan this summer.


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