Some Afghans who helped the U.S. say they've been trapped for months at an isolated U.S. military base with no end in sight.
Muhammad Arif Sarwari, known as"Engineer Arif," worked with the CIA during America's invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. He went on to serve as a top intelligence official and a politician before the"There are people here who have been in the Defense Ministry in Afghanistan, those who worked in the CIA, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, police officers, and a few regular people who escaped from the Taliban," Sarwari told CBS News in a text message from Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.
"I'm here with my wife and two daughters. After about 3-4 months of our stay, they provided a few classes for the kids and gave them some games to get distracted. There are no proper schools," Sarwari said. He said after he was denied entry to the United States, he was told the State Department would arrange for him to get a visa to go to a different safe country. After another two months of waiting for that visa, he was recently informed that he would not be eligible to go to the country he had requested.
CBS News has reached out to the State Department for comment but has received no response. An official at Camp Bondsteel said a CBS News request to visit was being reviewed.
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