NBC’s Atia Abawi on Abandoned Americans in Afghanistan: ‘They’re All Terrified’

EXCERPT:

ABAWI: "It’s not good, Andrea, from the people on the ground. I'm hearing men crying on the phone, females crying on the phone. One woman had her house sprayed with bullets by the Taliban because she was a female lawyer and her father was a colonel who died two months ago and they’re all terrified. Right now the only hope that they have is that someone is still talking to them. And I can’t tell them what’s going on, because we don’t really know, and I don’t think the administration knows either. I think that they have plans, but that is under the impression that the Taliban will accept these plans, and unfortunately, what we know from the Taliban is, they know that they’ve won. They know that they have the upper hand, and we do talk about possibly them needing Western money, but they also know that they have money in deals that can be made with other countries. For instance, China. For instance, even Iran and Russia, so we don’t know what the Taliban will actually follow through with."