mostly young girls. we met 17-year-old seddiqa mahmoudi just out of the hospital, still recovering from serious wounds. she fears it will happen again. i am very scared about it. reporter: the fear is everywhere. abdul, we will use only his first name, was side-by-side with u.s. marines in helmand province as an interpreter. now with a wife and three children, the fear of a taliban resurgence is near paralyzing. if they take over kabul, they will come and they will behead us all. they will kill us. reporter: like 18,000 others, he has yet to get a visa to leave the country, despite the u.s. state department saying it is a priority. we traveled to the outskirts of the city to the home of the taliban s haji sayed akbar agha, a senior leader when the taliban was in charge in this country.