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'Hunger Games' Evacuations as US Left Afghanistan

Voice of America

Sep 2, 2021

VOA Kabul Airport gate closed sign 8_26_21

Warren Binford, a law professor at the University of Colorado, was part of a remote, entirely digital network of volunteers who, she estimates, assisted 1,400 Afghans in getting out.

"The State Department had been put in charge of an evacuation from a warzone," she said, contending that as a result the military did not have the full command of the operation. They learned to "pivot and adapt on a constant ongoing basis", she said. Read article>>