“It’s like a dream for me.” Mohammad Khalid Wardak, an Afghan national police officer who narrowly escaped being captured by the Taliban, has started a new life in the United States.
In this photo provided to The Associated Press, Mohammad Khalid Wardak and his children are seen on Tuesday Sept. 7, 2021. Wardak, a high-profile Afghan national police officer, was being hunted by the Taliban because of his years working with the American military. Less than three weeks after the U.S. military and its allies rescued him, Khalid and his family have started a new life in the United States. .
During a 90-minute conversation from a U.S. government official’s home, Khalid, who left Afghanistan with a few important documents and the clothes he was wearing, recounted his final firefights with the Taliban, the brotherhood he developed with U.S. special forces and the prospect of a new life with no need for bodyguards, thanks to the generosity of friends and strangers.
He was widely known because of his position as police chief in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province and from television appearances, including one in which he challenged the Taliban to a fight, his friends said. 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 alongside Americans, said Army Special Forces Sgt. Major Chris Green, who worked with Khalid in Afghanistan.
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