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Vicente Gonzalez: “We have some allied Afghan pilots who are friends of ours…”

Featuring: Vicente Gonzalez, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 34

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Congressman Gonzalez Recollects on Saving Six U.S. Allies During Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Published | Video Starts at 02:04

You know, he answered that night that it was late in the evening. And I said, well, I'm calling because we have a peculiar situation and I need your help. I said, We have some allied Afghan pilots who are friends of ours who are flying our planes, although they were Afghanistan owned. but there were our planes and. And the Taliban is chasing them down, trying to kill them, and we're trying to find a way for them out. (02:04–02:13)

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Asserts that allied Afghan pilots were flying planes owned by Afghanistan but considered as 'our planes.'

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