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Hamed Aleaziz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
137 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

essential to the United States' ability to maintain security in Afghanistan.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

But human rights organizations criticized the work of this Zero Unit group.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

They alleged that Zero Unit went further than was necessary, and they called them death squads.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

They were conducting extrajudicial killings, killing civilians.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

These are all allegations that were made

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during this time about this group.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

Yeah, what we've learned is that Mr. Lachenwal specifically really struggled with the actions that his group undertook in Afghanistan.

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And he expressed this to a friend in Afghanistan who actually spoke with one of our colleagues.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

And this friend said that Mr. Lachenwal was going through some...

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

mental health issues and really in his telling this was clearly somebody who was traumatized from his experience as a part of zero units but despite that he remained in this unit up until the taliban took over the country in 2021. well bring us to that very dramatic

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For Lock and Wall and other Afghans who closely helped the United States government, suddenly they become targets for the Taliban.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

And there's this incredible pressure on the Biden administration to not leave behind those people who risked their lives in protecting the United States government.

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Yeah.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

And Mr. Lock and Wall, along with other members of the Zero Unit, were among the first people to flee Afghanistan and be brought by the United States government to America for protection.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

So he comes to the United States as part of a program called Operation Allies Welcome.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

And as part of this program, the Biden administration set up layers of vetting.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

They collected biometrics from these people, and they ran their information through U.S.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

databases for any potential terrorism hits, criminal hits, any...

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potentially derogatory information.

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The Fallout From the National Guard Shooting

And then when these individuals came to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security conducted another layer of vetting by Customs and Border Protection officers at the airports.