A group of American war veterans have reportedly “secretly rescued” hundreds of Afghan Special Forces troops and their families who had been “left for dead” by the Biden administration.
“The group of special op soldiers includes retired Green Berets and SEAL Team commanders who launched the mission, which they are calling Pineapple Express, after one of the Afghan commandos they served with contacted them to say he was on the run from the Taliban,” the Daily Mail reported. “His visa had not been approved when the Taliban took over on August 14 and thousands ran for the airport.”
“The special ops soldiers first devised a system with US troops at the airport where they sent their comrades to a gate and told them to identify themselves with the password ‘pineapple’ to be put on a plane by the Marines on the ground. Some also showed the troops pictures of pineapples on their phones,” the outlet continued.
After evacuating hundreds that way, the special op soldiers began going behind enemy lines against Biden administration restrictions to rescue more of their former colleagues.
“Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport,” ABC News reported.
As of Thursday morning, the group said it had saved 500 Afghan special ops troops and their families, bringing them to the airport in Kabul where they would be in the protective custody of the U.S. military.
