'If they came in and searched his home and saw that he has plans to go to the U.S. ... they'd shoot him right there and then,' says Zorah Aziz, whose husband is trapped in Afghanistan.
, the love of Zorah Aziz's life found himself with thousands of other terrified Afghans at the city's airport desperately seeking an escape from the Taliban.. She said she could hear Afghanistan coming apart in the background."All you hear is shots. All you hear is people screaming," Aziz, 30, said Tuesday."And he is just: 'Zorah, should I go forward? Should I go forward?' I'm like: 'Yeah, go! Go! Because you have no choice.
Aziz said her husband, whom she married in June 2019, has already been approved for a visa by U.S. immigration authorities. But his departure has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Even though Qasimi has no direct ties to the U.S. forces now leaving Afghanistan, the fact that he is married to an American and works as a purchasing manager for a U.S.-based company means he could be in danger.
They were engaged in January 2018, she said. And they met in person, for the first time, a week before they married on June 8, 2019."We feel like we were betrayed," she said."We felt like we were being such good people. We were waiting. We were so patient. And honestly, I feel like I got stabbed in the back."for wanting to get U.S. forces out of Afghanistan after 20 years.
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