An Afghan translator who helped Biden in 2008 asked to help him leave the country

“Hello, Mr. President, save me and my family.” With these words, an Afghan translator turned to Joe Biden in a desperate request for help. The Afghan citizen, who requested assistance through The Wall Street Journal, met Biden in 2008 and rescued him from a helicopter.

Identified as Mohammed, the translator is hiding in Afghanistan, a country that the United States has just left after twenty years of military intervention, and which has now returned to the hands of the Taliban.

Mohammed worked for an American contractor and was therefore eligible for a special visa for Afghan migrants, but his employer lost the documentation.

The interpreter tried to leave the country, like many compatriots, on one of the flights organized by the United States, but the US Marines agreed to evacuate him but not his family. “Don’t forget me here,” pleaded Mohammed.

The link with Biden goes back thirteen years, when the current president of the world’s greatest power was a senator and running mate of Barack Obama.

Biden and Senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel were traveling in two Armed Forces Black Hawk helicopters when they were forced to crash-land in a valley 30 kilometers from Bagram base in the wake of a snowstorm.

The crew sent a message for help and the translator traveled to the scene in a military vehicle. Sergeant Brian Genthe, who was part of that mission, said that Mohammed went to the scene with members of the Rapid Reaction Force of the 82nd Airborne Division for the rescue.

While the three senators were transferred to the Bagram base, the translator stayed with the soldiers for a little more than a day, megaphone in hand, to ward off the curious who were approaching the Black Hawks.

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