afghan commandoes, on the run, grateful for groups like you, promised not to leave anyone behind and working on it siv holders, people who applied for special up my grant visas worked for us. many who didn t have the qualification were getting into the united states. we have more evidence. a quote from a wisconsin state senator. we re talking about fort mccoy where 10,000 afghans are there right now. he got a briefing from the general there. this is one of his takeaways. one of the biggest take awais for me, the vast majority of folks coming into the fort mccoy are not the sivs. other individuals at risk, in some cases had no documentation at all. scott, part of your organization is to follow through too when afghans come to the united states. what do you do when you have afghans who are not, don t have documentation, didn t work with americans and now they re in wisconsin, a world away, what do
when the u.s. started pulling out in may, immediately afghan army units started to collapse. the taliban gained momentum quickly. i did reports saying the only units fighting are the afghan commandoes. everybody else is falling apart pch each time the taliban would take a territory, they would seize up the weapons. i had no idea why people thought it was going to take that the u.s. military would take a month. i was scrambling to get back in here pause i didn t want to miss the collapse. i was looking at my watch saying i better get back in there. they were talking about september 11th as the deadline for the withdrawal. i never thought it was going to last until september 11th.
did they look up philadelphia before they traveled their? we have a lot to cover tonight. u.s. government is now confirming that the american withdrawal from afghanistan is now 90% over. president biden had said september 11th as the date by which all u.s. forces would be out of afghanistan, now as of july 5th, more than 90% of the entire withdrawal process is done. a great number of members of congress who served in afghanistan are now turning up the heat to try to make sure that afghans who worked at translators, and supports for the u.s. troops can themselves get out of afghanistan ahead of what appears to be a lightning taliban advance across the country, which threatens the lives of those afghans who helped u.s. truth. friends the lives of their family, richard angle has been embedded with a group of afghan
this was their target. no idea what could be waiting inside. they look through the mosque windows but the taliban are gone. they escaped? they escaped. the taliban haven t gone far, the commando has killed three of them in hiding and an afghan airstrike killed three more. this mission is very good, and successful for us. but is it enough? the taliban are making rapid advances, the u.s. trained afghan army is crawling losing or surrendering a third of his post in the last few weeks. richard angle, cbc news, book our province afghanistan. richard angle with afghan commandoes, remarkable and scary reporting on that fight that remains as u.s. troops withdraw from afghanistan. the pentagon said today the u.s. withdrawal from america s longest war is more than 90% complete.