“People couldn’t breathe on board,” said Shah Mohammad Niazy, who worked with the United States military when he was still in Afghanistan. “She died on the ground before it took off.”Afghan Americans say they are committed to getting their extended families out of the country and into the United States. “My family is everything for me.”Mr. Ghafoori, who is single, has urged his parents, brothers and sisters to leave their house in Nangarhar Province — “leave everything,” he said. Farhad Yousafzai, an insurance agent, knows how hard that can be. He extracted his two brothers from Kabul on a flight to Turkey last week but only after what he described as “black market” dealings.

Source: New York Times August 17, 2021 17:48 UTC