Unit Zero

JAKARTA - Without attracting attention, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) managed to evacuate members of Unit Zero, a shadowy Afghan paramilitary force sponsored and controlled by the CIA. Worked alongside CIA agents and/or US Special Forces. They were given priority for evacuation to the United States when more than 122,000 people were flown out of Afghanistan in the second half of August after Kabul fell to the Taliban, a former senior US and Afghan intelligence official and former Afghan commando with knowledge of this told The Intercept, as quoted by Sputnik News, October 8th. As many as 7,000 former commanders and their family members are believed to have been flown out of Afghanistan. "Most of them were first taken to US military bases in Qatar, and then flown to bases in Virginia and New Jersey, Ramstein Air in Germany and the United Arab Emirates before obtaining permanent residency permits", the source said. Unit Zero troops are said to have been given priority over the command of the Afghan National Army's elite special forces. Two former special forces members said no formal effort was made to evacuate them and their families, leaving them to hide and fend for themselves when Taliban forces began hunting down former government officials and military personnel. At least four of the former commanders are feared to have been tracked down and killed, according to sources in The Intercept. https://voi.id/en/news/92651