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Afghan Interpreter Who Rescued Biden In 2008 Pleads For Help After Being Left Behind: ‘Don’t Forget Me Here’

Ryan Saavedra
Afghan Interpreter Who Rescued Biden In 2008 Pleads For Help After Being Left Behind: ‘Don’t Forget Me Here’
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An Afghan interpreter, who helped rescue then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) and two other senators in 2008 after their helicopter was forced to land in a snowstorm, is now pleading for President Biden to rescue him and his family from Afghanistan.

The man spoke with The Wall Street Journal as U.S. forces pulled out of the country on Monday and asked that only his first name, Mohammed, be used as he and his wife and four children are in hiding from the Taliban.

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