The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago said 400 more Afghan refugees in need are soon expected in the city.
CHICAGO -- Ahmadullah Qazi left Afghanistan as a refugee two days after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban when American troops pulled out in August of 2021."It was very hard living in the airport, in such a dark place," Qazi said."Sometimes maybe there was no water, maybe there was no food."
Faced with a regime change in Afghanistan, threats of retaliation and bodily harm, and with fears of a total economic collapse, tens of thousands of Afghans did everything they could to leave, some clinging to American military planes in desperation. " don't have family, have no resources, they really have no one to depend on, no one to go, but us," said Gregory Abdullah Mitchell, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago Executive Director.
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