Inside Operation Pineapple Express - the bid by US Special Forces to save Afghans from Kabul

The tireless effort by veterans to get Afghans out of Kabul as Western troops left and the Taliban continued their rampage has been documented in a harrowing new book by a former Green Beret who frantically tried to help his comrades escape - while US officials stood by. In an excerpt from his book Operation Pineapple Express, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, Mann describes how Afghan Army Master Sergeant Bashir Ahmadzai was forced to leave his family behind as he tried to get on a plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 19, 2021. One of the striking images from that day was an Afghan baby being plucked from the crowd beuing pulled over a razor wire-topped wall by Marines stationed on the perimeter 'Shepherds,' some in-person but the vast majority remote, guided Afghans in the dead of night through safety checkpoints and to Hamid Karzai International Airport A Green Beret emailed his commander in fury asking why senior leaders 'hadn't lifted a single finger to help their Afghan comrades'. Colonel Scott Mann told DailyMail.com that he feels 'a very deep sense of betrayal' that the Biden administration and military leaders did not do more to help those who fought alongside Americans for two decades in Afghanistan He didn't know that James drank too much. Four days had passed since Kabul had fallen, and as far as he could tell, U.S. Special Forces senior leaders hadn't lifted a single finger to help their Afghan comrades.