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Time was running out for Mohammad Khalid Wardak, a high-profile Afghan national police officer who spent years working alongside the American military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunted by the Taliban, he was hiding with his family in Kabul, constantly moving from place to place as they tried \u2014 and failed \u2014 several times to reach a rendezvous point where they could be rescued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After at least four attempts in as many days, the family finally was whisked away by helicopter Wednesday in a dramatic rescue \u2014 called Operation Promise Kept \u2014 carried out under cover of darkness by the U.S. military and its allies, said Robert McCreary, a former congressional chief of staff and White House official under President George W. Bush, who has worked with special forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rescue of Khalid, as he\u2019s called by friends, came after frantic efforts by his supporters in the U.S. military, who said he was a brother in arms <\/a>who helped save countless lives and faced certain death if found by the Taliban. They sought help from members of Congress and the Defense and State departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think people understand the chaos that is reigning right now in the capital, the brutality and the efficient lethality the Taliban are using … to ensure their rise to power as they eliminate their greatest threat, which are these military and special police,\u201d said U.S. Army Special Forces Sgt. Major Chris Green, who worked with Khalid in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalid and his family were unable to get inside the airport where the Taliban controlled the entrances. He was widely known because of his position as police chief in southern Afghanistan\u2019s Helmand province and from television appearances, including one in which he challenged the Taliban to a fight, supporters said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green said he was \u201cincredibly happy … elated,\u201d when he learned that Khalid and his family were safe, noting that some of his American rescuers had worked alongside Khalid, which he called \u201cserendipitous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCreary said multiple allies, including the British, helped, and that Khalid, his wife and their four sons, ages 3 to 12, were \u201csafe in an undisclosed location under the protection of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials said other Afghan partners, including police and military, also deserved to be saved and that more rescue efforts were in progress, but they could not discuss details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalid\u2019s friends said he had no intention of leaving Afghanistan, and planned to stand with his countrymen to defend his homeland after U.S. forces were gone. But the government collapsed with stunning speed, and the president fled the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe fought until he had nothing left to fight with,\u201d Green said. \u201cHe was wounded. He was surrounded. His forces were not being resupplied. And echelons above him in the government had already begun to make their exit plan … and striking deals. So people like him who were fighting were left stranded, and they were left without support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCreary said Khalid originally sought protection only for his family while he kept fighting. Khalid and other fighters were completely surrounded by the Taliban last week and their location overrun, McCreary said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Afghan government fell<\/a>, that\u2019s when \u201cwe quickly changed gears to also work on getting him to safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, rescuers lost contact with Khalid for several days, \u201cand we all assumed that that he was killed,\u201d McCreary said. \u201cJust last week, we thought it was over, and then we were just going to … keep working harder to protect his family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalid\u2019s supporters said it would have been unthinkable to leave him behind after his years of partnership with Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalid came to the rescue in March 2013, when a special forces detachment in eastern Afghanistan\u2019s Wardak province suffered an insider attack. Someone dressed in an Afghan National Security Forces uniform opened fire, killing two Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the outpost was almost simultaneously attacked from the outside, a U.S. commander called on Khalid, who within minutes raced into the valley with a quick-reaction force to defend his American partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, when Khalid lost part of his right leg in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, friends in the U.S. military helped get him medical care and a prosthetic leg outside the country. A month later, he was again leading special police operations in Afghanistan alongside the U.S., Green said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the way, he helped apprehend al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. He went on to serve as police chief in Ghazni province and then Helmand province, where he was wounded again last month in a mortar attack and continued to direct the resistance from his hospital bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalid\u2019s family has applied for refugee status in the U.S. based on fear of persecution, but it\u2019s unclear how long that process might take or if they will be approved. Translators, interpreters and others who worked for the U.S. in Afghanistan are eligible to apply for special immigrant visas, but current Afghan military members or police officers are not, supporters said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His supporters said it was most important to get them out of harm\u2019s way and then figure the rest out later. People who are top Taliban targets because of their work with U.S. forces deserve special consideration, McCreary said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one wants to live with the guilt of turning our backs or not … honoring our promises,\u201d McCreary said. That commitment and the collaboration it took to rescue Khalid \u201cmakes you proud to be an American.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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