An Afghan journalist who has been crucial to ABC Investigations stories on alleged war crimes has an Australian visa, but can't get into the airport at Kabul.
For more than two years, Nasim had been our "fixer" in Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan's south. Uruzgan is where Australian forces had been based for years.
A photo taken at the gates of the Kabul airport taken by *Nasim during one of his failed attempts to make it inside. One morning I woke to an email from Nasim: "I need your help today," he wrote. "That help I need is to save my life. If the Taliban come and kill me I will not be upset for myself. But I am worried about the future of my children."
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