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This article is part of a Fox News Digital series examining the consequences of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan one year ago this week.
A year after a Taliban offensive through Afghanistan descended on Kabul and overthrew the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, questions remain about the actions of the failed republic’s last internationally-recognized president, Ashraf Ghani.
“No power in the world could persuade me to get on a plane and leave this country. It is a country I love, and I will die defending,” Ghani infamously told Germany’s Der Spiegel in May 2021.
However, Ghani broke that promise just a few months later, gathering his family and flying out of Afghanistan as Taliban forces overran Kabul. The former president faced immediate criticism for what some called cowardly actions, while reports began to circulate that Ghani had fled with millions of dollars from Afghanistan’s treasury.
Rumors spread In the days after Ghani fled his country that he had landed in neighboring Tajikistan or Uzbekistan, but it was later revealed that he made his way to the United Arab Emirates and remains there in a house at an undisclosed location.
FORMER AFGHAN PRESIDENT GIVES REASON FOR FLEEING, SAYS HE WANTS TO RETURN AND ‘HELP MY COUNTRY HEAL’
Former President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on June 25, 2021.
(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The UAE welcomed Afghanistan’s former president and his family on humanitarian grounds, where Ghani quickly set out to defend his actions.
“Dear countrymen! Today, I came across a hard choice; I should stand to face the armed Taliban who wanted to enter the palace or leave the dear country that I dedicated my life to protecting and protecting the past twenty years,” Ghani said in a Facebook post hours after leaving the country. “The Taliban have made it to remove me, they are here to attack all Kabul and the people of Kabul. In order to…
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