Welcome to Episode 115 of The Afghanistan Project, where wecover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal.
Today, my guest is Fahim Abed, an investigations editor with Lighthouse Reports and 2023 Nieman fellow at Harvard. Fahim was a reporter for The New York Times in Afghanistan until the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021.
Fahim discusses a Lighthouse Reports’ investigation which found that 110 reprisal killings of Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel have taken place since 2023.
Fahim talks about the peril that ANDSF personnel live under as a result of their affiliation with the former government, including aggressive torture. We discuss the need for additional protections for ANDSF personnel, considering the closeness of their ties with U.S. military personnel.
Fahim closes the episode by reading a letter from the widow of an ANDSF reprisal victim.
Find the Lighthouse Reports investigation here: https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/hunted-by-the-taliban/
About the host:
Beth Bailey worked in support of Afghanistan operations as acivilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner.
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