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Thank you. Time is running out for the U.S. and its allies to get people out of Afghanistan.

On Thursday, multiple bombs set off outside the airport in Kabul,

killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 90 Afghan people,

many of them trying to flee the country as the Taliban reestablishes control.

ISIS K, a regional ISIS affiliate, claimed responsibility for the attacks. President

Joe Biden vowed retribution saying, we will hunt you down and make you pay. The president also

indicated the military would still complete its mission to leave Afghanistan by August 31st, and sticking

to that timeline is something that troubles many people seeking safe passage for U.S. allies in Afghanistan.

One of them is Nadia Hashimi, a pediatrician, writer, and advocate for Afghan women.

She's on the board of the Afghan American Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that advocates for Afghan Americans in the U.S.

Last week, activists projected a video of her addressing remarks to President Biden

on an outer wall of the State Department building in D.C.

I'm delivering this urgent message to you because of the catastrophe unfolding in my

ancestral home of Afghanistan. Thousands of Afghan civilians who stood alongside our troops risked being hunted

down by the Taliban if we abandoned them. Hashimi has been calling for the administration to extend

the August 31st deadline for complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Nadia,

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