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When Canada put out the call for help during their 14-year mission in Afghanistan, Ahmad Ferdaws Rahimi was among those who lent a hand.
After a decade of frustration and fear, the Afghan translator who worked alongside military veteran Robin Rickards of Thunder Bay, Ont., made it safely to Canada.
Fearing for their lives because they worked alongside foreign military outfits, Mohamed and his family fled their homes, made it to Kabul and were airlifted out, arriving in Thunder Bay on Friday night.
'I am thinking about how the Taliban will kill me. Maybe they will hang me or maybe will shoot me or execute me in a different way … I am out of my mind'
'I am thinking about how the Taliban will kill me. Maybe they will hang me or maybe will shoot me or execute me in a different way … I am out of my mind'