'We are feeling in danger here. Please save our family.' Tens of thousands of Afghans who helped the U.S. during the war remain in Afghanistan awaiting processing and now face a desperate race to leave the country.
WASHINGTON—Rahmat said he was relieved when the Central Intelligence Agency phoned him for an interview and, weeks later, arranged to shelter him on an Afghan base while the State Department processed his application for a visa to flee Afghanistan.
He feared the Taliban were hunting him down for his work spying for the CIA in remote border areas of Afghanistan for almost a decade, and lacked the paperwork to apply for a visa. But Rahmat isn’t in the clear., and even if he can make it to the capital from his hideout in a province hours away, the Afghan commander of the base has since told him he can’t shelter there.
“I’m very worried,” he said in a text message. “We are feeling in danger here. Please save our family.”and now face a desperate race to leave the country. The Wall Street Journal agreed to use only his first name.
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