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Today, Explained

From Kabul’s airport to Virginia’s burbs

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The world watched in horror as tens of thousands fled Afghanistan last August. Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah meets with an evacuee still stuck in immigration limbo. This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We've been talking a lot about the war in Ukraine on the show lately, but today we're

0:09.0

going to step back and talk about what happens after a war ends.

0:17.0

It's been a little over six months now since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan

0:25.8

and the United States made a very messy exit from its longest ever war.

0:31.8

Roughly 80,000 Afghans in danger of retaliation from the Taliban qualified to be airlifted

0:38.9

out of the country as you might remember.

0:41.3

They were brought to a number of other countries including the United States as evacuees and

0:47.2

on the show today, you're going to hear from one of them about starting over after war.

1:02.2

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1:06.3

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1:08.2

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1:12.2

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1:32.0

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1:37.5

The young gentleman's name would be Oliver.

1:41.2

Oliver Twist.

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