Unexpectedly.
[DW] The German government says some people it wanted to evacuate after the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
took power in Afghanistan have since died. Some deaths were
Thirty-two people who helped German armed forces during their mission in Afghanistan or were otherwise endangered have died while waiting to be taken to Germany following the Islamist Taliban's takeover in August 2021, according to German media.
The information was given in response to a question by Left Party parliamentarian Clara Bunger, with German news magazine Der Spiegel reporting first on the matter.
HOW DID THE DEATHS OCCUR?
According to the list provided in response to the question, 15 of the Afghans concerned died a natural death or in an accident.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
nine died in
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
," the list says. Another local helper did away with himself.
The cause of seven of the deaths remained unclear, the information provided by the government said.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
according to the government, none of the deaths was visibly connected to anyone's activities in helping German forces.
The German Bundeswehr formed part of a 20-year US-led military mission in Afghanistan that came to a disorderly conclusion in July 2021.
The government says it has arranged to take in more than 36,000 former local support staff and other endangered Afghans, including journalists and human rights
...not to be confused with
individual rights,mind you...
A 'DISASTER'
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
Bunger called the situation a "disaster," telling Spiegel that the government had criminally failed to fetch endangered people from Afghanistan in time.
She also reproached the new government for not bringing at least those people to safety who had been told they could come to Germany.
The pullout of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-led troops from Afghanistan in 2021 was widely perceived as chaotic, with evacuations of Afghans seen as being in danger from the incoming Taliban rulers taking place with a general lack of preparation. Many in Germany and elsewhere have since been concerned about the fates of those people who had aided foreign forces, whom the Taliban likely view as traitors to the country.