C.I.A.-Backed Afghan Fighters Are Still Waiting to Reach U.S.

New York Times: C.I.A.-Backed Afghan Fighters Are Still Waiting to Reach U.S. 

WASHINGTON — During the frantic evacuation from Afghanistan in August, the American troops securing the Kabul airport against suicide bombers and other dangers were not alone. 

At the direction of the C.I.A., agency-trained Afghan counterterrorism squads helped patrol the perimeter, secure the gates and get American citizens through them. 

Those Afghan commandos stayed to the end, and were among the very last allies to be evacuated. But even as some 80,000 other Afghan refugees quickly reached the United States, hundreds of the C.I.A.-backed fighters and their families are among thousands who remained stuck at a sprawling refugee compound in the Emirati desert. 

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WNU Editor: These former fighters are the lucky ones. They may be waiting for their immigration applications to go through while killing time in Abu Dhabi, but at least they are not in Afghanistan.