Family of American kidnapped in Afghanistan fears he will be 'left behind'
Charlene Cakora is glad more U.S. troops will be coming home from Afghanistan soon. But she also is filled with dread that the drawdown announced this week will complicate efforts to find her brother.
Mark Frerichs, a civilian contractor, was abducted in Afghanistan in January and hasn’t been heard from since.
“I think it’s bad news,” she said of the troop reduction plan in a telephone interview from her home in Illinois. “We want the troops home, but we don’t want Mark to be left behind.”
The Trump administration says it will roughly halve the number of troops in Afghanistan, from about 5,000 to 2,500, by mid-January. Under a deal between the United States and the Taliban signed earlier this year, all American and NATO forces could be gone by May, if certain conditions are met.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/american-hostages-afghan-war/2020/11/18/dcb1bf96-29b9-11eb-b847-66c66ace1afb_story.html
Heckuva job Trumpy.
