Nice story from Stars & Stripes about a Marine Captain, Adrian Kinsella, that never gave up trying to get his Afghan terp a visa to the USA. ...Marked for death by the Taliban because he helped the Americans, Mohammad's father had been tortured and murdered, and his younger brother held for ransom. "Until I got him out of there," Kinsella said, "all of my men weren't home." After 3½ years of frustrating efforts to get Mohammad a visa, Kinsella finally stood at San Francisco International Airport in January, waiting to embrace a man he calls his brother. "It was like I was being born again," said Mohammad, whose last name is not being used by this newspaper because his family remains in peril... Read the whole piece here.
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Jul 15 2014, 02:48 AM
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