The Afghan interpreter who helped rescue President Biden from a remote Afghan valley in 2008 has been left behind after the last US evacuation flight took off on Monday, according to a report. Mohammed, while working for the US Army, had a key role in a story often repeated - and embellished - by Biden during his 2008 run for vice president. As senator, Biden was on board one of two Blackhawk helicopters that made an emergency landing in a blinding snowstorm, alongside then-Sens. 'We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn't have to do it,' Kerry joked after the senators' rescue. 'If you can only help one Afghan, choose [Mohammed],' wrote Shawn O'Brien, an Army combat veteran who worked with him in Afghanistan in 2008.

Source: Daily Mail August 31, 2021 18:04 UTC