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In late August I wrote about two outstanding Afghan women who were struggling to escape Taliban pursuit. One had made it out of the country and the second was still hiding in Kabul. Miraculously, Najlla Habibyar, a U.S. green card holder and U.S. aid worker, has now escaped to Abu
Digital dunkirk, private citizens using their connections, getting people out of afghanistan. and it's wonderful that all these amazing people are doing this. it also is a huge condemnation of the inability of the u.s. government, don't you think? >> well, again, i don't know how you ultimately, you know, argue with getting 130,000 people out of afghanistan. that's a pretty stunning number that the united states was able to get out. i understand that doesn't encompass every single person that we would want to protect, but in a two-week period of time following the unexpected overnight collapse...
Alike. connected, was able to get him to kandahar to kabul and he is now in texas and is able to speak about it and then a cia officer and a friend from college reach out and said, hey, i'm working with digital dunkirk and would you be interested in joining and when i got in, connected with a group of folks who had the ability to provide sensitive logistics and then it became an operation to support the state department. they were telling americans or anybody rather, citizens, lprs, whatever you happen to be, you need to be at this place at this time with this paperwork and chaos in a war zone...
Who served in iraq and afghanistan and he's been one of the members of digital dunkirk helping to coordinate evacuations out of kabul. alex, thanks so much for being here. full transparency for your viewers. i've tried to help your mission in various ways, including giving some names and passport numbers to you. i want to start with your reaction to this news today that the taliban allowing this flight from kabul to qatar. does this give you hope that more evacuations might be allowed? >> i do. actually i think it's wonderful. it seems to be a positive, you know, progressive step towards getti...