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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfghan pilot who protected US airmen is in hiding after Pentagon reverses approval to come to US
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Decorated Afghan pilot who protected US airmen is in hiding after Pentagon reverses approval to come to US - Middle East - Stripes
Decorated Afghan pilot who protected US airmen is in hiding after Pentagon reverses approval to...
The 32-year-old flier is said to have killed more Taliban than any other pilot in the Afghan Air Force during thousands of flight hours, Afghan and U.S. military officers told Stars and Stripes.
stripes.com
12:08 PM · Nov 28, 2020
Jake Tapper
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Decorated Afghan pilot who protected US airmen is in hiding after Pentagon reverses approval to come to US - Middle East - Stripes
Decorated Afghan pilot who protected US airmen is in hiding after Pentagon reverses approval to...
The 32-year-old flier is said to have killed more Taliban than any other pilot in the Afghan Air Force during thousands of flight hours, Afghan and U.S. military officers told Stars and Stripes.
stripes.com
12:08 PM · Nov 28, 2020
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/decorated-afghan-pilot-who-protected-us-airmen-is-in-hiding-after-pentagon-reverses-approval-to-come-to-us-1.651338
KABUL, Afghanistan A helicopter pilot reputed to have killed more Taliban than anyone else in the Afghan air force is in hiding after the Pentagon reversed its decision to approve his move to the United States.
In early October, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service and the Defense Department approved Maj. Mohammed Naiem Asadis request to seek refuge in America, along with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, because they were in imminent danger of being killed by the Taliban, approval documents and emails shared with Stars and Stripes show.
But on Oct. 28, just hours before they were to about to leave, Asadi was told plans had changed. He would learn the Pentagon had withdrawn its endorsement.
The Pentagon had indeed approved Asadis application to seek refuge in America, said a DOD official who could not be named due to not being authorized to comment on the case. The military changed its stance after a few senior leaders had objected that this decision had been made without their approval, the official said.
The U.S. military on Friday confirmed it had pulled its support for Asadi and his family.
The appropriate officials determined that DoD could not support the request, Army Maj. Rob Lodewick, a Pentagon spokesman, said in an emailed statement.
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Afghan pilot who protected US airmen is in hiding after Pentagon reverses approval to come to US (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Nov 2020
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Ilsa
(61,694 posts)1. Who reversed it? Trump's new DoD stooge?
Seems like someone in the Armed Forces would try to help this family instead of leaving him high & dry.
Nevilledog
(51,085 posts)2. Wouldn't surprise me....cruelty is the point with trumpers.
dware
(12,369 posts)3. I've no doubt it was Pissolini's lackey who vetoed this. nt
dhill926
(16,337 posts)4. what the fuck...
finding new ways to be assholes every day...
Worried2020
(444 posts)5. Ask any Native American if they are surprised . . . .
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How many agreements/promises/ treaties did the White Man make and break while they invaded the whole fuking continent?
'nuff said
(sigh)
W