West Point graduate who fled Afghanistan reflects on one-year anniversary of US withdrawal
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Former Afghan Special Forces officer Naqib Mirzada describes what happened on the days leading up to the fall of Afghanistan and what direction he thinks the country is headed.
Ashley Carnahan is a production assistant at Fox News Digital.
Mirzada's final assignment was to oversee the US/NATO military and embassy withdrawal from the country, marking an end of the 20-year war.
When Kabul fell on Aug. 15, he took his parents, three sisters and wife to Hamid Karzai International Airport to flee the country, fearing reprisal from the Taliban for his service in the Afghan forces. Three days later, they boarded a flight to Qatar and from there to Washington D.C., New Mexico, and Texas before arriving in Southern California.
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