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“My hands and body are shaking,” he told Fox News. “The most important thing is my family and my life.”
The interpreter’s wife told Fox News she was “very scared for the Taliban that they will kill my kids and my husband.” She went on, “If they kill my husband, how can I handle my life?”
His wife added: “My husband was working with Americans and helped them, and right now, they’re not helping us.”
The interpreter, who worked with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines and U.S. Army, as well as U.S. military contractors from 2011 until the end of 2014, told Fox News despite going through the application process, “I don’t know what happened, something was wrong with my case.” He detailed the steps he took to get approval and shared documents with Fox News.
The interpreter said he was “disappointed,” because friends have been calling him asking why the United States “have not helped you.”
“They left you behind,” he recalled his friends saying. “It makes me very disappointed.”
The interpreter, who is in his 30s, told Fox News he remembered when the Taliban were last in control some 20 years ago.
“The situation changed here very fast. When I was working with the U.S. forces, I had a very simple life,” he said.
The interpreter, to the left in the blue shirt, working with Afghan forces.
“Now, we have no liberty, we can’t leave the house, they will beat you and take you to jail,” he said. “If you listen to music, they will take you to jail.”
His wife added: “Every door that we are trying to go to to ask for help, all of the doors have been closed for us. So we don’t have any hope. We don’t know where we can go to ask for help, so please help us.”
Fox News first learned of the interpreter’s incident with the Taliban through a U.S. Army veteran who worked alongside the Afghan interpreter during his time in the country.
“It was always said to us that if our interpreters, if they did a good job and were loyal, we would be able to write them letters of recommendation to get a SIV and come live in the United States,” the veteran told Fox News.
The veteran shared further documents regarding the interpreter’s application with Fox News, which were reviewed for authenticity. The interpreter’s application was rejected, according to documentation, due to a “termination” from his role.
“He was never terminated,” the veteran said. “They did away with our program. He wasn’t terminated, we just finished the work.”
He added: “He has submitted six different copies of the application, and has six different veterans giving him letters of recommendation.”
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“He’s scared for his life right now, and he’s not sure what to do,” the veteran said, explaining that he’s been in touch with the State Department and congressional offices to try to help. “I’ve gotten through, but it’s just like a circle.”
He added: “We promised these guys something.”
